Teredolites

Teredolites
Teredolites; an ichnogenus formed by boring bivalves in wood.
Trace fossil classification
Ichnofamily:	† Gastrochaenolitidae
Ichnogenus:	† Teredolites Leymerie, 1842
Type ichnospecies
Teredolites clavatus Leymerie, 1842
Synonyms [1] [2]
MartesitesVitális, 1960 PalaeoclavariaPoinar & Brown, 2003

Teredolites clavatus in Burmese amber

Teredolites is an ichnogenus of trace fossil, characterized by borings in substrates such as wood or amber.

Club-shaped structures rimming mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber were formerly identified as the fungal sporocarps Palaeoclavaria burmitis . A 2018 study re-identified the structures as domichnia (crypts) bored in the amber nodules by bivalves of the pholadid subfamily Martesiinae. The borings are comparable with Teredolites clavatus and Gastrochaenolites lapidicus'' . ^[3] Due to the substrate of the Myanmar borings being amber, the term 'amberground' was coined.

See also

• Ichnology

References

1. Wisshak, M.; Knaust, D.; Bertling, M. (2019). "Bioerosion ichnotaxa: review and annotated list". Facies. 65 (2): 24. Bibcode:2019Faci...65...24W. doi:10.1007/s10347-019-0561-8.
2. Bolotov, I. N.; Aksenova, O. V.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Konopleva, E. S.; Chapurina, Y. E.; Kondakov, A. V. (2021). "A new fossil piddock (Bivalvia: Pholadidae) may indicate estuarine to freshwater environments near Cretaceous amber-producing forests in Myanmar". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): Article number 6646. Bibcode:2021NatSR..11.6646B. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-86241-y. PMC   7988128 . PMID   33758318.
3. Smith, R. D. A.; Ross, A. J. (2018). "Amberground pholadid bivalve borings and inclusions in Burmese amber: implications for proximity of resin-producing forests to brackish waters, and the age of the amber". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 107 (2–3): 239–247. doi:10.1017/S1755691017000287. S2CID   204250232.

External links

• "Chuck D. Howell's www.clastics.com | Ichnogenera". www.clastics.com.