Species
Nihilichnus nihilicus Mikuláš, Kadlecová, Fejfar et Dvořák, 2006
Taxon description
LaBarge & Njau, 2024
Emended diagnosis: Roughly triangular, circular, orelliptical holes in vertebrate bone, passing throughthe cortical bone.
Mikuláš et al., 2006
Diagnosis: Roughly triangular, circular or ovoid holes or external pits, occurring solitarily or in groups, which may show recurring patterns. Outer part of the margin of the cavity shows minute, irregular jags, resulting from a brittle deformation.
Synonymy list
2006 Nichilichnus nihilicus n. isp. — Mikuláš et al. , pp. 119, fig. 6
2023 Nihilichnus nihilicus Mikuláš et al., 2006 — Trifilio et al. , pp. 13, fig. 8A-B
2023 Nihilichnus nihilicus Mikuláš et al., 2006 — Zonneveld et al. , pp. 310, fig. 2.1, 2.3
2024 Nihilichnus nihilicus Mikuláš et al., 2006 — Andrade et al. , pp. 6, fig. 3:a1-a2
2024 Nihilichnus nihilicus Mikuláš et al., 2006 — LaBarge & Njau , pp. 44-45, fig. 2
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Machichnidae |
| Genus | Nihilichnus |
| Species | clavus |
| covichi | |
| hastarius | |
| mortalis | |
| nihilicus | |
| quadripertitus | |
| sicarius | |
| sulcatus |