Macaronichnus

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Macaronichnus is an ichnogenus of trace fossil.

The environmental preferences of Macaronichnus are high-energy foreshores and shallow shorefaces.[1][2][3] Macaronichnus is an indicator of temperate to cold waters.[4][5]

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  1. ^ Clifton, H.E., Thompson, J.K., 1978. Macaronichnus segregatis: a feeding structure of shallow marine polychaetes. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 48, 1293–1302.
  2. ^ Pemberton, S.G., Spila, M., Pulham, A.J., Saunders, T., MacEachern, J.A., Robbins, D., Sinclair, I.K., 2001. Ichnology and Sedimentology of Shallow to Marginal Marine Systems. Geological Association of Canada, Short Course Notes, Vol. 15. AGMV Marquis, St. John’s
  3. ^ Seike, K., Yanagishima, S.I., Nara, M., Sasaki, T., 2011. Large Macaronichnus in modern shoreface sediments: identification of the producer, the mode of formation, and paleoenvironmental implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 311, 224––229.
  4. ^ Quiroz, L.I., Buatois, L.A., Mangano, M.G., Jaramillo, C.A., Santiago, N., 2010. Is the trace fossil Macaronichnus an indicator of temperate to cold waters? Exploring the paradox of its occurrence in tropical coasts. Geology 38, 651–654.
  5. ^ Crippa, G., Baucon, A., Felletti, F., Raineri, G., Scarponi, D. 2018. A multidisciplinary study of ecosystem evolution through early Pleistocene climate change from the marine Arda River section, Italy. Quaternary Research 89(2). Abstract available at http://www.tracemaker.com

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