Paleoovoidus Vasilenko, 2005

Petrulevicius, Julian F., Wappler, Torsten, Nel, Andre & Rust, Jes, 2011, The diversity of Odonata and their endophytic ovipositions from the Upper Oligocene Fossillagerstaette of Rott (Rhineland, Germany), ZooKeys 130, pp. 67-89 : 72-73

Ichnogenus Paleoovoidus Vasilenko, 2005

* Paleoovoidus Vasilenko, 2005, p. 630, figs 1-3.

part. Sertoveon Krassilov, 2008, p. 69, figs 1-5.

Paleoovoidus Vasilenko, 2008, p. 516, fig. 2, pl. 7.

Paleoovoidus Sarzetti et al., 2009, p. 433, figs 2-7.

"Flea beetle egg deposition," Lewis and Carroll, 1991, p. 335, fig. 2.

"Flea beetle egg deposition," Lewis and Carroll, 1992, p. 3, fig. 2.

Type ichnospecies.

Paleoovoidus rectus Vasilenko, 2005, by monotypy.

Diagnosis

(taken from Sarzetti et al. 2009). Medium-sized elongate, narrow, ovoid, or lens-shaped structures, characterized by regular arrangement in leaf lamina. These structures, defined by dark, surrounding reaction tissue, are narrow at one end, each of which often bears a dark spot.

Comments.

Sarzetti et al. (2009) provided a revision of the ichnogenus Paleoovoidus including Paleoovoidus rectus , Paleoovoidus flabellatus , Paleoovoidus arcuatus , and Paleoovoidus bifurcatus . We have used here the narrowed concept of Paleoovoidus as presented by Sarzetti et al. (2009: 437). Other ichnogenera erected by Krassilov and Silantieva (2008), Costoveon and Catenoveon , are comparable with Paleoovoidus , although the disposition of the scars over the leaf are different (vide Sarzetti et al. 2009). Unfortunately, the use of nomenclature to describe fossil damage types within a fossil assemblage in the literature is unsatisfactory, not least because of the inconsistency created by different authors using their own particular schemes (e.g., Krassilov and Silantieva 2008; Vasilenko 2008).