Bergaueria

{{Short description|Fossil genus}}

{{Ichnobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range | Ediacaran | Ludlow}}

| image = Bergaueria radiata.png

| image_caption = Bergaueria radiata

| taxon = Bergaueria

| authority = Prantl, 1946

| type_ichnospecies = Bergaueria perata

| type_ichnospecies_authority = Prantl, 1946

| subdivision_ranks = Ichnospecies

| subdivision =

• Bergaueria perata {{small|Prantl, 1945}}
• Bergaueria langi {{small|(Hallam, 1960)}}
• Bergaueria radiata {{small|Alpert, 1973}}
• Bergaueria hemispherica {{small|Crimes et al., 1977}}

| subdivision_ref = {{Cite journal|first1=S. George|last1=Pemberton|first2=Robert W.|last2=Frey|first3=Richard G.|last3=Bromley|year=1988|title=The ichnotaxonomy of Conostichus and other plug-shaped ichnofossils|journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences|volume=25|issue=6|pages=866–892|doi=10.1139/e88-085}}

| synonyms = Kulindrichnus {{small|Hallam, 1960}}

}}

Bergaueria is an Ediacaran–Silurian{{Cite journal | url = https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ageo/1989-v25-n3-ageo_25_3/ageo25_3art03/| title = Bergaueria perata Prantl, 1945 from the Silurian of Cape George, Nova Scotia| journal = Atlantic Geology| year = 1989| volume = 25| issue = 3| pages = 191–197| last1 = Pickerill| first1 = R.| doi = 10.4138/1683| doi-access = free}} trace fossil believed to represent the dwelling trace of Cnidarians (Actinia – sea anemones).{{Cite journal | jstor = 1303074| title = Bergaueria Prantl (Cambrian and Ordovician), a Probable Actinian Trace Fossil| last1 = Alpert| first1 = Stephen P.| journal = Journal of Paleontology| year = 1973| volume = 47| issue = 5| pages = 919–924}} It likely caused mixing and fluid exchange into the sediment (bioirrigation).{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1111/gbi.12550| title = Ediacaran–Cambrian bioturbation did not extensively oxygenate sediments in shallow marine ecosystems| year = 2023| last1 = Cribb| first1 = Alison T.| last2 = Van De Velde| first2 = Sebastiaan J.| last3 = Berelson| first3 = William M.| last4 = Bottjer| first4 = David J.| last5 = Corsetti| first5 = Frank A.| journal = Geobiology| volume = 21| issue = 4| pages = 435–453| pmid = 36815223| s2cid = 257102048| doi-access = free| bibcode = 2023Gbio...21..435C}}

Similar traces (Cheiichnus) can be made by rotational movement of arthropods.{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1080/11035890001223293| title = Cheiichnus gothicus igen. et isp. n., a new Bergaueria-like arthropod trace fossil from the Lower Cambrian of Västergötland, Sweden| year = 2000| last1 = Jensen| first1 = Sören| last2 = Bergström| first2 = Jan| journal = GFF| volume = 122| issue = 3| pages = 293–296| bibcode = 2000GFF...122..293J| s2cid = 128602473}}