Rusophycus by Any Other Name Is Still Rusophycus carleyi |
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| Authors: | Stacey Gibb S George Pemberton |
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| Institution: | Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Rusophycus carleyi (James, 1885 James, J. F. 1885. The fucoids of the Cincinnati Group, Pt. 2. Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, 7:151–166. Google Scholar]) is an ichnospecies that encompasses a variety of sizes and morphological variations that can be attributed to substrate-organism interaction(s) and taphonomic variation(s). R. carleyi ranges from the Cambrian to the Late Ordovician, with a cosmopolitan (global) distribution. Four ichnospecies are identified as junior synonyms of R. carleyi: morgati, moyensis, polonicus and radialis. |
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| Keywords: | Cambrian Ichnotaxonomy morphology Ordovician synonymize |
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