Species

Xylokrypta durossi Tapanila et Roberts, 2012

Type specimen data
holotype: Natural History Museum of Utah Paleobotany Collections, Salt Lake City, Utah ; UMNH PB 1915; Horse Canyon, Wolverine Petrified Forest; Norian
Reference:
Tapanila, L., Roberts, E. M. 2012. The earliest evidence of holometabolan insect pupation in conifer wood. pp. e31668. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0031668
Taxon description

Melnyk et al., 2020 (for 2021)

Diagnosis/description: Kidney-shaped borings with apertures oriented perpendicular to wood surface.

Tapanila & Roberts, 2012

Diagnosos: Xylokrypta durossi is a curved, roughly U-shaped, boring having two widely-spaced, circular cylindrical shafts that connect below the wood surface to a kidney-shaped chamber. All margins of the boring are sharp, cross-cutting the xylem tissues with minor
deformation. The boring penetrates 10–14 mm deep, enough to
maintain a 1–2 mm ‘roof’ of xylem above the chamber.

Synonymy list
1997     Colonial bees’ nest — Hasiotis , pp. 22-23
1998     Bee nest — Hasiotis et al. , fig. 5
2002     cf. Celliforma — Hasiotis , fig. 14A-C
2010     Beetle borings — Lucas et al. , fig. 3, 4
2012     Xylokrypta durossi isp. nov. — Tapanila & Roberts , pp. 3, fig. 2-4
2017     Xylokrypta durossi — Genise , fig. 17.6
2020     Xylokrypta durossi Tapanila and Roberts, 2012 — Melnyk et al. , fig. Tab. 1. Tracemaker: Suborder Archostemata
Selection of related publications
Tapanila, L., Roberts, E. M. 2012. The earliest evidence of holometabolan insect pupation in conifer wood. PLOS ONE 7, 2, e31668. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0031668
Classification
Organism groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
Bioerosional trace fossils
GenusXylokrypta
Speciesdurossi
References based on distribution