{{Short description|Trace fossil}} {{about|the Beaconites trace fossils|the article on the Quaker controversy|Quakers#Beaconite controversy}} {{italic title}} '''''Beaconites''''' is an ichnogenus known from the Beacon Supergroup, Antarctica, comprising a large, segmented burrow, bearing superficial resemblance to the skeleton of a snake, and probably created by a worm-like organism "shovelling" the substrate out of its way.<ref name=Gevers1971/> Some terminate in elliptical pits, around 1.5 cm in diameter, presumed to represent burrowing activity.<ref name=Gevers1971>{{cite journal | author = Gevers, T.W. |author2= Frakes, L.A.|author3= Edwards, L.N.|author4= Marzolf, J.E. | year = 1971 | title = Trace Fossils in the Lower Beacon Sediments (Devonian), Darwin Mountains, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica | journal = Journal of Paleontology | volume = 45 | issue = 1 | pages = 81–94 | jstor=1302754 }}</ref> The producer of the trace is thought to have burrowed to a depth of no more than a few tens of centimeters.<ref name=Woolfe1993>{{cite journal | author = Woolfe, K.J. | year = 1993 | title = Devonian depositional environments in the Darwin Mountains: Marine or non-marine? | journal = Antarctic Science | volume = 5 | issue = 2 | pages = 211–220 | doi = 10.1017/S0954102093000276 | bibcode = 1993AntSc...5..211W | s2cid = 129509428 }}</ref>
== Ichnospecies == * ''B. antarcticus'' (Vialov, 1962) <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vialov |first=O. S. |year=1962 |title=Problematica of the Beacon Sandstone at Beacon Height West, Antarctica |url=https://rsnz.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1080/00288306.1962.10417633 |journal=New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics |language=en |volume=5 |issue=5 |pages=718–732 |doi=10.1080/00288306.1962.10417633 |issn=0028-8306 |via=Taylor & Francis Online}}</ref> type fossil * ''B. capronus'' (Howard and Frey, 1984)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Howard |first=James D. |last2=Frey |first2=Robert W. |date=1984-02-01 |title=Characteristic trace fossils in nearshore to offshore sequences, Upper Cretaceous of east-central Utah |url=http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/e84-022 |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |language=en |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=200–219 |doi=10.1139/e84-022 |issn=0008-4077|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * ''B. coronus'' (Frey et al., 1984)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Frey |first=Robert W. |last2=Pemberton |first2=S. George |last3=Fagerstrom |first3=J. A. |year=1984 |title=Morphological, ethological, and environmental significance of the ichnogenera Scoyenia and Ancorichnus. |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=511–528}}</ref> * ''B. fliformis'' (Uchman and Alvaro, 2000)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Uchman |first=Alfred |last2=Álvaro |first2=Jose Javier |date=2000 |title=Non-marine invertebrate trace fossils from the Tertiary Calatayud-Teruel basin, NE Spain |url=https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/article/view/22170 |journal=Spanish Journal of Palaeontology |language=es |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=203–218 |doi=10.7203/sjp.15.2.22170 |issn=2660-9568|doi-access=free }}</ref>
==See also== *{{annotated link|Trace fossil}}
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Category:Burrow fossils Category:Ichnotaxa
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