Family
Machichnidae Wisshak, Knaust et Bertling, 2019
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Diagnosis: Punctures to grooves, both of somewhat irregular outline, often in sets, in bone.
Ethological category: Praedichnia (predation or scavenging traces).
Selection of related publications
Pimentel, R. J., Hunt, A. P., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Berrocal-Casero, M. 2025. A new dentalite, Piscidenticulus callapezi igen. et isp. nov., on a crocodylomorph coprolite from the Upper Cretaceous of west-central Portugal. Cretaceous Research 106193. DOI:10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106193
Mazuch, M., Košťák, M., Mikuláš, R., Culka, A., Kohout, O., Jagt, J. W. 2024. Bite traces of a large, mosasaur-type(?) vertebrate predator in the lower Turonian ammonite Mammites nodosoides (Schlüter, 1871) from the Czech Republic. Cretaceous Research 153, 105714. DOI:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105714
Yanenko, V., Kovalchuk, O. 2023. Late Miocene Turtles of Grytsiv (western Ukraine) with Rodent Gnaw Marks on the Carapace Surface. Zoodiversity 57, 4, 311-322. DOI:10.15407/zoo2023.04.311
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