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Rusophycus (Hemisphaerichnus) communitas—a New Ichnofossil Taxon from the Ordovician of the Tuva Region

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Trace fossils recording the activity of organisms are common in the Ordovician terrigenous deposits of Tuva. The richest location of ichnofossils was found in the Chirgaky section in the western part of the region. Ichnofossil taxa such as Dimorphichnus Seilacher and Helmintopsis Heer have already been sporadically recorded in other regions of the world. Along with them, the author found predominant trace fossils which should be attributed to a new species of a new subgenus of the genus Rusophycus Hall.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author expresses his gratitude to L. Buatois (Canada) and J.-C. Gutiérrez-Marco (Spain), experts on Paleozoic ichnofossils, for the valuable advice during our discussions in the course of work on the stone material. The author thanks his colleagues O.T. Obut, N.G. Izokh, T.V. Khlebnikova, D.A. Tokarev for their help in collecting Tuva ichnofossils, as well as A.V. Dronov and V.B. Kushlina for valuable remarks at the final stage of work on the manuscript, which helped to improve the quality.

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This work was performed within the framework of state assignment of Russian Academy of Sciences (FWZZ-2022-0003).

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Sennikov, N.V. Rusophycus (Hemisphaerichnus) communitas—a New Ichnofossil Taxon from the Ordovician of the Tuva Region. Paleontol. J. 56, 361–368 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030122040116

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