Family
Talpinidae Wisshak, Knaust et Bertling, 2019
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Diagnosis: Branched cylindrical borings that may anastomose.
Ethological category: Domichnia (dwelling traces) or agrichnia (farming traces).
Selection of related publications
Wisshak, M., Titschak, J., Kahl, W.-A., Girod, P. 2017. Classical and new bioerosion trace fossils in Cretaceous belemnite guards characterised via micro-CT. Fossil Record 20, 2, 173-199. DOI:10.5194/fr-20-173-2017
Stiller, F. 2005. An Early Jurassic Talpina-dominated assemblage of borings in bivalve shells from southern Hunan, China, with remarks on the ichnogenus Talpina Hagenow, 1840. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 44, 396-411.
Fürsich, F. T., Palmer, T. J., Goodyear, K. L. 1994. Growth and disintegration of bivalve-dominated patch reefs in the Upper Jurassic of southern England. Palaeontology 37, 1, 131-171.
Karpiński, J. J. 1962. Cast of the brood galleries of fossil beetle of the Scolytidae family from Oligocene/Miocene Sandstone at Osieczów (Lower Silesia). Prace Państwowego Instytu Geologicznego 30, 327-239.
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