Genus
Petroxestes Wilson et Palmer, 1988
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Macroboring; substrate calcareous; tracemaker invertebrate
Buatois et al., 2017
Category of architectural design: 2.65. Pouch borings.
Knaust, 2012a
Unbranched, groove.
Wilson & Palmer, 1988
Diagnosis. —Shallow to deep, elongate borings in lithic substrates; rounded ends and parallel, slightly convex, or slightly concave sides in plan view; rounded bottoms in longitudinal and transverse section; sides parallel or slightly divergent down wards in deeper specimens; length up to 30 mm; several times as long as wide.
Taylor & Wilson, 2003
Remark: Shallow to deep boring with elongate outline and rounded base.
Selection of related publications
Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A., Toom, U. 2019. Earliest Petroxestes borings from Sandbian (earliest Late Ordovician) of Northern Estonia. Palaios 34, 10, 453-457. DOI:10.2110/palo.2019.054
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Rogerellidae |
| Genus | Aurimorpha |
| Cubiculum | |
| Cuenulites | |
| Cuniculichnus | |
| Petroxestes | |
| Species | altera |
| pera | |
| Genus | Rogerella |
| Sanctum | |
| Umbichnus |