Genus

Lamniporichnus Mikuláš, Dvořák et Pek, 1998

Taxon description

Mikuláš et al., 1998

Diagnosis: Borings in those wooden parts of fruits which contain a hollow filled with non-xylic digestible tissue (nuts, stones). The borings consist of a short cylindrical tunnel joining the nut (stone) surface and a natural hollow inside the xylic body.

Comparisons: Lamniporichnus differs from a similar ichnogenus Carporichnus Genise, 1995 by the circumstance that the boring of the former ichnogenus only perforates a wall of the fruit particle. However, in Carporichnus, borings are composed of a longitudinal central cavity and a radial tunnel, both made by the tracemaker (Genise 1995). Similar to identical morphology as Lamniporichnus shows also the ichnogenus Oichnus Bromley, 1981, which, however, differs by its substrate (i.e. shells of marine shally fauna, esp. gastropods and lamellibranchs).

Buatois et al., 2017

Category of architectural design: 2.63. Circular holes and pit-shaped borings.

Knaust, 2012a

Unbranched, spheroidal.

Selection of related publications
Mikuláš, R., Dvořák, Z., Pek, I. 1998. Lamniporichnus vulgaris igen. et isp. nov.: Traces of insect larvae in stone fruits of hackberry (Celtis) from the Miocene and Pleistocene of the Czech Republic. Journal of the Czech Geological Society 43, 4, 277-280.
Classification
References based on distribution