An Event Bed with Abundant Skolithos Burrows from the Late Pridoli (Silurian) of Saaremaa (Estonia)

Publication Date

2013

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Abundant Skolithos burrows are here described from a possible regressive event bed at Ohesaare cliff (Pridoli), Saaremaa, Estonia. The vertical, cylindrical burrows are identified as Skolithos rather than Trypanites because they intercept and bypass rather than cut bioclasts in the limestone matrix. The absence of encrustation on the upper bedding surface also is evidence that these traces are soft-sediment burrows rather than hardground borings. We interpret this intensive bioturbation by Skolithos-producing organisms as an indicator of a shallow water paleoenvironment with high hydrodynamic energy.

Keywords

Baltica, Late Silurian, Shallow shelf, Skolithos, Trace fossils

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