RT Journal Article
T1 Cruziana- and Rusophycus-like traces of recent Sparidae fish in the estuary of the Piedras River (Lepe, Huelva, SW Spain)
A1 Muñiz Guinea, Fernando
A1 Belaústegui, Zain
A1 Cárcamo, Carolina
A1 Domènech, Rosa
A1 Martinell, Jordi
AB Modern fish are able to produce a plethora of different traces (both bioturbation and bioerosion structures) according to several behaviours, yet only five ichnotaxa have been interpreted as produced by the activity of fish in the fossil record. Many taphonomic factors may favour the non-fossilization of many of these traces and, even fossilized, they could have been misinterpreted. In this contribution, shallow and bilobed traces produced by the feeding activity of the perciform fish Diplodus vulgaris (Sparidae) in the estuary of the Piedras River (Lepe, Huelva, SW Spain) are described. Neoichnological study and comparison of these bioturbation structures with the fossil record allow associating them as Cruziana- and Rusophycus-like traces, i.e. traces with features very similar to those of such ichnogenera. Since these ichnotaxa have been commonly interpreted as the result of the locomotion and resting of different kinds of invertebrates, in order to get a better understanding of the marine and continental fossil record, we also propose taking into account fish as potential producers of this kind of traces in future paleoichnological studies.
PB Elsevier
SN 0031-0182
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/11596
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/11596
LA eng
NO Muuñiz Guinea, F., Belaústegui, Z., Cárcamo, C., Domènech, R., Martinell, J.: "Cruziana- and Rusophycus-like traces of recent Sparidae fish in the estuary of the Piedras River (Lepe, Huelva, SW Spain)". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol. 439, págs. 176–183, (2015). DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.03.017
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026