Genus
Clavichnus Höpner et Bertling, 2017
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Macroboring; substrate osteic; tracemaker invertebrate
Höpner & Bertling, 2017
Diagnosis: Unbranched, claviform, slender tubes in bone substrates, orientation more or less perpendicular to substrate surface.
Selection of related publications
Muñiz, F., Gibert, J. M. de, Esperante, R. 2010. First trace-fossil evidence of bone-eating worms in whale carcasses. Palaios 25, 4, 269-273. DOI:10.2110/palo.2009.p09-112r
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Gastrochaenolitidae |
| Genus | Apectoichnus |
| Clavichnus | |
| Species | ionasi |
| Genus | Gastrochaenolites |
| Palaeosabella | |
| Phrixichnus | |
| Teredolites |