Genus
Osteocallis Roberts, Rogers et Foreman 2007
Taxon description
Dworczak et al., 2025
Emended diagnosis.—Shallow, curved or straight grooves bored into external bone surfaces. They may occur in pairs or as meandering trails. The latter may form a network of randomly overlapping trails.
Roberts et al., 2007
Diagnosis.Shallow, meandering trail of arcuate grooves (apparently paired) bored into external (cortical) bone surfaces. May be single trail or network of randomly overlapping trails.
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Grazing; substrate osteic; tracemaker invertebrate
Buatois et al., 2017
Category of architectural design: 2.79. Groove bioerosion traces.
Knaust, 2012a
Unbranched, groove.
Selection of related publications
Roberts, E. M., Rogers, R. R., Foreman, B. Z. 2007. Continental insect borings in dinosaur bone: Examples from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar and Utah. Journal of Paleontology 81, 1, 201–208. DOI:10.1666/0022-3360(2007)81[201:CIBIDB]2.0.CO;2
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Circolitidae |
| Genus | Circolites |
| Ericichnus | |
| Osteocallis | |
| Species | infestans |
| leonardii | |
| mandibulus | |
| Genus | Planavolites |