Ichnofossils
Ichnofossil group

Bioerosional trace fossils

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Selection of related publications
Knaust, D., Dronov, A. V., Toom, U. 2023. Two almost‐forgotten Trypanites ichnospecies names for the most common Palaeozoic macroboring. Papers in Palaeontology 9, 3, e1491. DOI:10.1002/spp2.1491
Toom, U., Kuva, J., Knaust, D. 2023. Ichnogenus Trypanites in the Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica). Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 72, 1, 106-109. DOI:10.3176/earth.2023.48
Toom, U., Kröger, B., Knaust, D. 2023. A Balanoglossites-Trypanites ichnofabric from the Upper Ordovician warm-water carbonates of Estonia.Following in the footsteps of Richard Granville Bromley. Abstracts and Field Guide , pp. 38-38.
Knaust, D., Dronov, A., Toom, U. 2023. Two almost forgotten Trypanites ichnospecies names for the most common Palaeozoic macroboring.Bio-i geosobytiâ v istorii Zemli. Ètapnost' èvolûcii i stratigrafičeskaâ korrelâciâ. LXIX sessiâ paleontologičeskogo obŝestva , pp. 59-59. Kartafabrika VSEGEI.
Wisshak, M., Neumann, C., Sanna, G., Nielsen, K., Milàn, J. 2023. Suspected foraminiferan parasitism on a Late Cretaceous echinoid host recorded by the new attachment trace fossil Solichnus aestheticus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68, 1, 13-22. DOI:10.4202/app.01028.2022
Matysik, M., Stachacz, M., Knaust, D., Whitehouse, M. J. 2022. Geochemistry, ichnology, and sedimentology of omission levels in Middle Triassic (Muschelkalk) platform carbonates of the Germanic Basin (southern Poland). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 585, 110732. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110732
Vinn, O., Ernst, A., Wilson, M. A., Toom, U. 2022. Symbiosis in trepostome bryozoans from the Sandbian (Late Ordovician) of Estonia. Historical Biology 34, 6, 1029-1038. DOI:10.1080/08912963.2021.1959579
Vinn, O., Holmer, L. E., Wilson, M. A., Isakar, M., Toom, U. 2021. Possible drill holes and pseudoborings in obolid shells from the Cambrian/Ordovician boundary beds of Estonia and the uppermost Cambrian of NW Russia. Historical Biology 33, 12, 3579–3584. DOI:10.1080/08912963.2021.1878355
Mergl, M. 2020. Dendritic microborings in brachiopod shells from the Silurian of the Barrandian area, Czech Republic. Bulletin of Geosciences 319-332. DOI:10.3140/bull.geosci.1793
Heřmanová, Z., Bruthansová, J., Holcová, K., Mikuláš, R., Kočová Veselská, M., Kočí, T., Dudák, J., Vohník, M. 2020. Benefits and limits of x-ray micro-computed tomography for visualization of colonization and bioerosion of shelled organisms. Palaeontologia Electronica 23.2.23A. DOI:10.26879/1048
Knaust, D. 2020. Sulcolithos variabilis igen. et isp. nov.: grooves on firm and hard bedding surfaces. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 94, 1, 195-206. DOI:10.1007/s12542-019-00464-z
Knaust, D., Dorador, J., Rodríguez-Tovar, F. J. 2020. Burrowed matrix powering dual porosity systems – A case study from the Maastrichtian chalk of the Gullfaks Field, Norwegian North Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology 113, 104158. DOI:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.104158
Wisshak, M., Hüne, L. 2019. The new encrusting microproblematicum Circumpodium enigmaticum and its attachment trace Circumpodichnus serialis from the Middle Jurassic of Normandy (France). Fossil Record 22, 2, 77-90. DOI:10.5194/fr-22-77-2019
Toom, U., Vinn, O., Hints, O. 2019. Ordovician and Silurian ichnofossils from carbonate facies in Estonia: A collection-based review. Palaeoworld 28, 1-2, 123-144. DOI:10.1016/j.palwor.2018.07.001
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
Uchman, A., Stachacz, M., Salamon, K. 2018. Spirolites radwanskii n. igen. n. isp.: vermetid gastropod attachment etching trace from the middle Miocene rocky coast of the Paratethys, Poland. Journal of Paleontology 92, 5, 883-895. DOI:10.1017/jpa.2017.95
Wisshak, M., Titschak, J., Kahl, W.-A., Girod, P. 2017. Classical and new bioerosion trace fossils in Cretaceous belemnite guards characterised via micro-CT. Fossil Record 20, 2, 173-199. DOI:10.5194/fr-20-173-2017
Porter, S. M. 2016. Tiny vampires in ancient seas: evidence for predation via perforation in fossils from the 780–740 million-year-old Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, USA. Proceedings of the Royal Society 283, 1831, 185-195. Elsevier BV. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2016.0221
Hanken, N.-M., Uchman, A., Nielsen, J. K., Olaussen, S., Eggebø, T., Steinsland, R. 2016. Late Ordovician trace fossils from offshore to shallow water mixed siliciclastic and carbonate facies in the Ringerike Area, Oslo Region, Norway. Ichnos 23, 3-4, 189-221. DOI:10.1080/10420940.2016.1199427
Vinn, O., Toom, U. 2016. Borings in phosphatized Cambrian siltstone pebbles, Estonia (Baltica). Geological Magazine 153, 4, 635-642. DOI:10.1017/S001675681500076X
Vinn, O., Toom, U. 2016. Bioerosion of inorganic hard substrates in the Silurian of Estonia (Baltica). GFF 138, 2, 306-310. DOI:10.1080/11035897.2015.1076513
Vinn, O., Toom, U. 2016. A sparsely encrusted hardground with abundant Trypanites borings from the Llandovery of the Velise River, western Estonia (Baltica). Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 65, 1, 19-26. DOI:10.3176/earth.2016.01
Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A., Toom, U. 2015. Bioerosion of Inorganic Hard Substrates in the Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica). PLOS ONE 10, 7, e0134279. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0134279
Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A., Ausich, W., Toom, U. 2015. Tremichnus in crinoid pluricolumnals from the Silurian of western Estonia (Baltica). Carnets de Géologie 15, 17, 239-243. DOI:10.4267/2042/57951
Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A., Mõtus, M. 2014. The Earliest Giant Osprioneides Borings from the Sandbian (Late Ordovician) of Estonia. PLOS ONE 9, 6, 1-6. Public Library of Science (PLoS). DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0099455
Santos, A., Mayoral, E., Villas, E., Herrera, Z., Ortega, G. 2014. First record of Podichnus in orthide brachiopods from the Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian) of NW Argentina and its relation to the early use of an ethological strategy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 399, 1, 67-77. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.02.003
Donovan, S. K. 2013. A distinctive bioglyph and its producer: Recent Gastrochaenolites Leymerie in a peat pebble, North Sea Coast of The Netherlands. Ichnos 20, 3, 109-111. DOI:10.1080/10420940.2013.798318
Knaust, D., Dronov, A. 2013. Balanoglossites ichnofabrics from the Middle Ordovician Volkhov formation (St. Petersburg Region, Russia). Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 21, 3, 265-279. DOI:10.1134/S0869593813030040
Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A. 2012. Encrustation and bioerosion on late Sheinwoodian (Wenlock, Silurian) stromatoporoids from Saaremaa, Estonia. Carnets de Géologie 12, 2, 183-191. DOI:10.4267/2042/47551
Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A. 2010. Occurrence of Giant Borings of Osprioneides kampto in the Lower Silurian (Sheinwoodian) Stromatoporoids of Saaremaa, Estonia. Ichnos 17, 3, 166-171. DOI:10.1080/10420940.2010.502478
Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A. 2010. Early large borings in a hardground of Floian-Dapingian age (Early and Middle Ordovician) in northeastern Estonia (Baltica). Carnets de Géologie 10, le, 1-4. DOI:10.4267/2042/35594
Dronov, A. V. 2010. Morphological variations of vertical borings and burrows from the Ordovician of East Baltic: ichnotaxonomical implications.IV Workshop on Ichnotaxonomy. Abstracts , pp. 31-32.
Koromyslova, A. V., Fedorov, P. V., Ershova, V. B. 2009. New records of bryozoans from the Lower Ordovician of the Leningrad Region and intercolonial variability in Esthoniopora lessnikowae (Modzalevskaya). Paleontological Journal 43, 2, 153-161. Pleiades Publishing Ltd. DOI:10.1134/S0031030109020051
Beuck, L., Wisshak, M., Munnecke, A., Freiwald, A. 2008. A Giant Boring in a Silurian Stromatoporoid Analysed by Computer Tomography. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53, 1, 149-160. DOI:10.4202/app.2008.0111
Neumann, C., Wisshak, M., Bromley, R. G. 2008. Boring a mobile domicile: an alternative to the conchicolous life habit.Current Developments in Bioerosion , pp. 307-327. Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-77598-0_16
Sørensen, A.M., Surlyk, F. 2008. A brachiopod boring (Podichnus) in a Late Cretaceous oyster from a mangrove-like environment, Skåne, Sweden. Lethaia 41, 3, 295–298. DOI:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00107.x
Robinson, J. H., Lee, D. E. 2008. Brachiopod pedicle traces: recognition of three separate types of trace and redefinition of Podichnus centrifugalis Bromley and Surlyk 1973. Fossils and Strata 54, 219-225.
Wyse Jackson, P. N., Key, M. M. 2007. Borings in trepostome bryozoans from the Ordovician of Estonia: two ichnogenera produced by a single maker, a case of host morphology control. Lethaia 40, 3, 237-252. Wiley. DOI:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2007.00021.x
Vinn, O. 2005. The tube ultrastructure of serpulids (Annelida, Polychahaeta) Pentaditrypa subtorquata, Cretaceous, and Nogrobs cf. vertebralis, Jurassic, from Germany. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Geology 54, 4, 260-265. DOI:10.3176/geol.2005.4.03
Vinn, O. 2005. The distribution of worm borings in brachiopod shells from the Caradoc Oil Shale of Estonia. Carnets de Géologie 5, article 3, 1-11. DOI:10.4267/2042/2454
Stiller, F. 2005. An Early Jurassic Talpina-dominated assemblage of borings in bivalve shells from southern Hunan, China, with remarks on the ichnogenus Talpina Hagenow, 1840. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 44, 396-411.
Donovan, S. 2003. A New Ichnospecies of Gastrochaenolites Leymerie from the Pleistocene Port Morant Formation of Southeast Jamaica and the Taphonomy of Calcareous Linings in Clavate Borings. Ichnos 9, 1-2, 61-66. DOI:10.1080/10420940190034085
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Classification
Organism groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
Bioerosional trace fossils
Bite marks
FamilyBelichnidae
Centrichnidae
Circolitidae
Dendrinidae
Entobiaidae
Gastrochaenolitidae
Gnathichnidae
Ichnoreticulinidae
Machichnidae
Oichnidae
Osteichnidae
Planobolidae
Podichnidae
Renichnidae
Rogerellidae
Saccomorphidae
Talpinidae
Trypanitidae
GenusAmphifaoichnus
Anellusichnus
Archaeomycelites
Asteriastoma
Balticapunctum
Bascomella
Bothrioichnus
Brachyzapfes
Calciroda
Chaetophorites
Cicatricula
Clionites
Clionoida
Clionoides
Conchifora
Conchotrema
Curvichnus
Cylindricavus
Cylindrocavites
Dekosichnus
Dendrorete
Diorygma
Endoconchia
Fascichnus
Fasciculus
Feldmannius
Flagrichnus
Foraripora
Fossichnus
Gaspeichnus
Glirotremmorpha
Globodendrina
Granarborus
Graysonia
Haguenowia
Haimeina
Heckerina
Hemicanalis
Heterodontichnites
Hyellomorpha
Ichnogutta
Ichnotorula
Immergentia
Iramena
Karethraichnus
Klemmatoica
Lazaichnus
Leptichnus
Mandibulichnus
Martesites
Megascolytinus
Microptychoites
Moniopterus
Munitusichnus
Mycelites
Mycobystrovia
Myzostomites
Nygmites
Olkenbachia
Orbignyopora
Orthogonum
Osedacoides
Ostreoblabe
Palaeoconchocelis
Palaeopede
Paleoipidus
Paleolithophaga
Paleolithopholas
Pectichnus
Pennatichnus
Pinaceocladichnus
Platydendrina
Polydorichnus
Radiarites
Ramodendrina
Ramosulcichnus
Repentella
Reticulina
Roderosignus
Ropalonaria
Santichnus
Scolecia
Scolytolarvariumichnus
Sedilichnus
Semidendrina
Seminolithes
Simonizapfes
Spathipora
Specus
Spiracavites
Stellichnus
Stichus
Sulcolithos
Tarrichnium
Terebripora
Tombownichnus
Topsentopsis
Uniglobites
Vermiforichnus
Xylokrypta
Zapfella
SpeciesPalaeoperone
Ichnofossil groupCoprolites
Soft-sediment trace fossils