Genus
Petroxestes Wilson et Palmer, 1988
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Macroboring; substrate calcareous; tracemaker invertebrate
Buatois et al., 2017
Category of architectural design: 2.65. Pouch borings.
Knaust, 2012a
Unbranched, groove.
Wilson & Palmer, 1988
Diagnosis. —Shallow to deep, elongate borings in lithic substrates; rounded ends and parallel, slightly convex, or slightly concave sides in plan view; rounded bottoms in longitudinal and transverse section; sides parallel or slightly divergent down wards in deeper specimens; length up to 30 mm; several times as long as wide.
Taylor & Wilson, 2003
Remark: Shallow to deep boring with elongate outline and rounded base.
Selection of related publications
Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A., Toom, U. 2019. Earliest Petroxestes borings from Sandbian (earliest Late Ordovician) of Northern Estonia. Palaios 34, 10, 453-457. DOI:10.2110/palo.2019.054
Jagt, J. W. M., Neumann, C., Donovan, S. K. 2009. Petroxestes altera, a new bioerosional trace fossil from the upper Maastrichtian (Cretaceous) of northeast Belgium. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belqique, Sciences de la Terre 79, 137-145.
Pickerill, R. K., Donovan, S. K., Portell, R. W. 2003. Teredolites longissimus Kelly and Bromley from the Grenadines, Lesser Antilles. Scripta Geologica 125, 1, 1-9.
List of species
Klassificering
| Organism group | Biota |
| Ichnofossil group | Ichnofossils |
| Bioerosional trace fossils | |
| Family | Rogerellidae |
| Genus | Aurimorpha |
| Cubiculum | |
| Cuenulites | |
| Cuniculichnus | |
| Petroxestes | |
| Species | altera |
| pera | |
| Genus | Rogerella |
| Sanctum | |
| Umbichnus |
References based on distribution
- Vinn et al., 2019c Sandbian
- Pickerill et al., 2003 Miocene