Genus

Asthenopodichnium Thenius, 1979

Taxon description

Uchman et al., 2007a

Emended diagnosis. Small, U-shaped spreiten or pouch-like structures in wooden, organic-rich or bone substrates.

Wisshak et al., 2019a

Macroboring; substrate xylic; tracemaker invertebrate

Francischini et al., 2016

Emended diagnosis. Small, U-shaped spreiten, pouche or rodelike structures in wooden, organic rich, bone or hardground substrates (after Uchman, Gaigalas, Melesyte & Kazakauskas, 2007; emended).

Buatois et al., 2017

Category of architectural design: 2.65. Pouch borings.

Selection of related publications

Genise, J. F., Garrouste, R., Nel, P., Grandcolas, P., Maurizot, P., Cluzel, D., Cornette, R., Fabre, A., Nel, A. 2012. Asthenopodichnium in fossil wood: Different trace makers as indicators of different terrestrial palaeoenvironments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 365-366, 184-191. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.09.025

Uchman, A., Gaigalas, A., Melešyte, M., Kazakauskas, V. 2007. The trace fossil Asthenopodichnium lithuanicum isp. nov. from Late Neogene brown-coal deposits, Lithuania. Geological Quarterly 51, 3, 329-336.

List of species

1. Asthenopodichnium lithuanicum Uchman, Gaigalas, Melešyte et Kazauskas, 2007 | Pliocene

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Ichnofossil group	Ichnofossils
	Bioerosional trace fossils
Family	Osteichnidae
Genus	Asthenopodichnium
Species	fallax
	lignorum
	lithuanicum
	xylobiontum
Genus	Canaliparva
	Caulostrepsis
	Maeandropolydora
	Osteichnus
	Pseudopolydorites
	Sertaterebrites