Teredolites is an ichnogenus of trace fossil, characterized by borings in substrates such as wood or amber.
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| Teredolites; an ichnogenus formed by boring bivalves in wood. | |
Trace fossil classification 
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| Ichnofamily: | †Gastrochaenolitidae |
| Ichnogenus: | †Teredolites Leymerie, 1842 |
| Type ichnospecies | |
| Teredolites clavatus Leymerie, 1842
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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
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
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