{"id":4748,"date":"2014-01-11T17:12:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T22:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/?page_id=4748"},"modified":"2016-09-28T20:39:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T00:39:31","slug":"diplichnites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/ichnofossils\/diplichnites\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Diplichnites<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<div style=\"height: 250px;\" align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border-right: 20px solid white; float: left; width: 250px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Diplichnites_250px.png?w=605&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 250px;\">\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Classification<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Ichnofossil\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/ichnofossils\/\">Ichnofossil<\/a><br \/>\nIchnogenus: <em>Diplichnites<\/em> Dawson, 1873<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 250px;\"><img alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">\n<p>[accordions title=&#8221;&#8221; disabled=&#8221;false&#8221; active=&#8221;1&#8243; autoheight=&#8221;false&#8221; collapsible=&#8221;true&#8221;] [accordion title=&#8221;Taxonomic Details&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>[\/accordion] [\/accordions]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid col-300\">\n<p><strong>Stratigraphic Occurrences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Cruziana_strat.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5206\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Cruziana_strat.png?resize=300%2C273&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" data-id=\"5206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid col-100\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid col-575 fit\">\n<p><strong>Geographic Occurrences<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><code><div class=\"leaflet-map WPLeafletMap\" style=\"height:250px; 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disabled=&#8221;false&#8221; active=&#8221;1&#8243; autoheight=&#8221;false&#8221; collapsible=&#8221;true&#8221;] [accordion title=&#8221;Stratigraphic Description&#8221;]<br \/>\nSequences (Formations)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>C5 Sequence (Waynesville: Liberty)<\/li>\n<li>C4 Sequence (Sunset: Oregonia)<\/li>\n<li>C3 Sequence (Corryville)<\/li>\n<li>C2 Sequence (Miamitown: Fairview)<\/li>\n<li>C1 Sequence (Clay&#8217;s Ferry: Kope)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/accordion] [\/accordions]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid col-300\">\n<p><strong>Identification in Hand Sample<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<ul>\n<li>General morphology: Simple, closely spaced parallel tracks<\/li>\n<li>Branching: None<\/li>\n<li>Surface ornamentation: None<\/li>\n<li>Fill: None<\/li>\n<li>Lining: None<\/li>\n<li>Spreiten: None<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid col-300\">\n<p><strong>Paleoenvironmental Parameters<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Substrate: Marine softground to soil<\/li>\n<li>Oxygen content: Low-high<\/li>\n<li>Nutrient content: Low-high<\/li>\n<li>Energy: Low-moderate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Interpretations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Behavior: Locomotion<\/li>\n<li>Tracemaker: Marine: trilobite, arthropod; Continental: millipede, centipede<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid col-300 fit\">\n<p><strong>Potential Environments<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marine (shallow to deep)<\/li>\n<li>Continental (alluvial, lacustrine, eolian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"width: 800px;\">\n<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Diplichnites_800px.png?w=605&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 75%;\" align=\"left\"><em>Diplichnites<\/em> from the Kope Formation of Foster, Kentucky (left, OUIP 137; right, OUIP 95)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">\n<p>[accordions title=&#8221;&#8221; disabled=&#8221;false&#8221; active=&#8221;1&#8243; autoheight=&#8221;false&#8221; collapsible=&#8221;true&#8221;] [accordion title=&#8221;Published Description&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><em>Hasiotis (KU, 2013)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Description: Simple track consisting of a series of closely spaced pairs of individual parallel series of fine ridges or tracks. Tracks are blunt to elongate, closely and regularly spaced and normal to oblique to trace axis.<\/li>\n<li>Intepretation: Locomotion; marine (shallow to deep) to continental including alluvial, lacustrine, and eolian; Trilobites and arthropods. In continental environments, arthropods, centipedes and millipedes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Fossils of Ohio (1996)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Diplichnites<\/em> is a trackway, typically 1 to 2 cm, consisting of two parallel series of ridges or grooves that commonly occur in pairs. This trackway is found in Mississippian rock units such as the Bedford Shale. It is also found in the Ordovician rocks of Ohio (see Osgood, 1970, where it is illustrated under the name <em>Petalichnus<\/em>) . <em>Diplichnites<\/em>is the trackway of an arthropod. Most forms are the work of trilobites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part W, Miscellanea Supplement 1 (1975)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Description: \u201cMorphologically simple track, width about 1 to 2 cm, consisting of 2 parallel series of fine ridges (1-5 mm long), individual ridges elongate obliquely to track axis, sometimes apparently occurring in pairs (illustrating two-clawed limbs of animal producing track), anterior ridge more prominent.\u201d W. Hantzschel 1975<\/li>\n<li>Interpretation: Originally interpreted by Dawson as traces of large worms or crustations or imprints of spines of fish; now considered locomotion tracks of trilobites, walking or striding in straightforward movement across the surface of the sediment; Crimes (1970b, p. 57) observed transitional forms between <em>Diplichnites<\/em> and <em>Cruziana<\/em>; Osgood (1970, p. 352) is skeptical about the trilobite origin and the marine environment of Dawson\u2019s type specimens of ichnogenus; a comparable track from the Devonian of Antarctica is <em>Beaconichnus gouldi<\/em> Gevers, 191 (see Gevers et al., 1971, p. 86, 93)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/accordion] [\/accordions]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classification Ichnofossil Ichnogenus: Diplichnites Dawson, 1873 [accordions title=&#8221;&#8221; disabled=&#8221;false&#8221; active=&#8221;1&#8243; autoheight=&#8221;false&#8221; collapsible=&#8221;true&#8221;] [accordion title=&#8221;Taxonomic Details&#8221;] [\/accordion] [\/accordions] Stratigraphic Occurrences Geographic Occurrences [accordions title=&#8221;&#8221; disabled=&#8221;false&#8221; active=&#8221;1&#8243; autoheight=&#8221;false&#8221; collapsible=&#8221;true&#8221;] [accordion title=&#8221;Stratigraphic Description&#8221;] Sequences (Formations) C5 Sequence (Waynesville: Liberty) C4 Sequence (Sunset: Oregonia) &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/ichnofossils\/diplichnites\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><em>Diplichnites<\/em><\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4105,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3T22h-1eA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13638,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4748\/revisions\/13638"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}