Genus
Linichnus Jacobsen et Bromley, 2009
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Predation; substrate osteic; tracemaker vertebrate
Jacobsen & Bromley, 2009
Diagnosis: Single elongated groove of biogenic origin on skeletal material (e.g., bones, teeth). The groove, U-or V-shaped in transverse section, may only affect the surface of the bone, or bone-fibres may be cut through, recurved or brocen within the groove. The groove has serrated morphology.
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Machichnidae |
| Genus | Knethichnus |
| Linichnus | |
| Species | bromleyi |
| serratus | |
| Genus | Machichnus |
| Mandaodonites | |
| Nihilichnus |
References based on distribution
- Palij et al., 1979 Syuzma, Arkhangelsk Region Vendian
- Pirrus, 1992a Vendian
- Crimes, 1992a
- Pacześna, 1996 Busowno IG 1 borehole - 3108 Lower Cambrian (old nomenclature)