19 March 2015

Zoophycos trace fossils in Mahantango Formation, Fort Valley

Posted by Callan Bentley

Spotted these lovely ichnofossils this morning in the southern Fort Valley, on Saint David’s Church Road.

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These are all wet because I washed and scrubbed the outcrop in preparation for GigaPanning it.

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Unwashed heathens follow…

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Zoophycos is a helical feeding trace fossil – the signature of some critter systematically mining the mud in its vicinity for digestible organic content. This outcrop is really great, and I hope to share a GigaPan version of it with you soon.