Genus
Morsichnus Hunt, Lucas & Foster, 2026
Taxon description
Hunt et al., 2026
Diagnosis: Dentalite on bony substrate that consists of small sets of serial, parallel or subparallel discrete grooves with the basal surface being smooth or longitudinally striated and usually oriented sub-perpendicular to the substrate edge.
Selection of related publications
Trifilio, L. H. M. D. S., de Araújo Júnior, H. I., Porpino, K. D. O. 2023. The paleoichnofauna in bones of Brazilian Quaternary cave deposits and the proposition of two new ichnotaxa. Ichnos 30, 3, 207-234. DOI:10.1080/10420940.2023.2271125
Araújo-Júnior, H. I. D., Barbosa, F. H. D. S., Silva, L. H. M. D. 2017. Overlapping paleoichnology, paleoecology and taphonomy: Analysis of tooth traces in a Late Pleistocene-early Holocene megafaunal assemblage of Brazil and description of a new ichnotaxon in hard substrate. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 468, 122-128. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.007
Mikuláš, R., Kadlecová, E., Fejfar, O., Dvořák, Z. 2006. Three new ichnogenera of biting and gnawing traces on reptilian and mammalian bones: A case study from the Miocene of the Czech Republic. Ichnos 13, 3, 113-127. DOI:10.1080/10420940600850729
Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Machichnidae |
| Genus | Brutalichnus |
| Heterodontichnites | |
| Knethichnus | |
| Linichnus | |
| Machichnus | |
| Mandaodonites | |
| Mikulasichnus | |
| Morsichnus | |
| Species | bohemicus |
| deinodentatus | |
| fatimae | |
| Genus | Nihilichnus |
| Selachiodentichnus |