Species
Nihilichnus quadripertitus Mikuláš, 2024
Taxon description
Mazuch et al., 2024
Diagnosis: Roughly circular openings occurring on a fourfold of nearly parallel, slightly divergent rows. The rows form an angle of 20° at most, while the openings maintain a regular distance and are situated more or less opposite each other along the length axis; the distance between the holes is approximately an order of magnitude greater than their diameter.
Synonymy list
2024 Nihilichnus quadripertitus Mikuláš, isp. nov. — Mazuch et al., 2024 , pp. 4
2024 Nihilichnus quadripertitus Mikuláš, 2024 — LaBarge & Njau , pp. 50
2025 Mikulasichnus (Nihilichnus) quadripertitus (Mikulas, 2024 in Mazuch et al., 2024) — Hunt & Lucas , pp. 345
Selection of related publications
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
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Machichnidae |
| Genus | Nihilichnus |
| Species | clavus |
| covichi | |
| fissuratus | |
| hastarius | |
| mortalis | |
| nihilicus | |
| quadripertitus | |
| sicarius | |
| sulcatus |
References based on distribution
- Mazuch et al., 2024 Měcholupy Turonian