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Oldhamia

Oldhamia
Temporal range: Cambrian Fortunian–Cambrian "Stage 5"
Trace fossil classification
Ichnogenus: Oldhamia
Forbes, 1848
Ichnospecies
  • O. radiata Forbes, 1848
  • O. antiqua Forbes, 1848
  • O. flabellata Aceñolaza et Durand, 1973
  • O. curvata Lindholm et Casey, 1990
  • O. geniculata Seilacher, Buatois et Mangano, 2005
  • O. alata Seilacher, Buatois et Mangano, 2005

Oldhamia is an ichnogenus describing burrows produced by worm-like organisms mining underneath microbial mats. It was common from the Early Cambrian deep-water deposits.

The Ediacaran species Oldhamia recta are body fossils of a rod-like organism, rather than ichnofossils.

The Ordovician Oldhamia pinnata and Carboniferous-Permian Oldhamia fimbriata were mentioned without any ichnotaxonomical formalization, and therefore are nomina nuda.

It was named after the geologist Thomas Oldham.

List of Ediacaran genera



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