Genus

Osteocallis Roberts, Rogers et Foreman 2007

Taxon description

Paes Neto et al., 2016

Emended diagnosis: Shallow trail of mandibular grooves bored into external (cortical) bone surfaces. It may present as a single trail or a network of randomly overlapping trails (modified from Roberts et al., 2007)

Dworczak et al., 2025

Emended diagnosis: Shallow, curved or straight grooves bored into external bone surfaces. They may occur in pairs or as meandering trails. The latter may form a network of randomly overlapping trails.

Roberts et al., 2007

Diagnosis.Shallow, meandering trail of arcuate grooves (apparently paired) bored into external (cortical) bone surfaces. May be single trail or network of randomly overlapping trails.

Wisshak et al., 2019a

Grazing; substrate osteic; tracemaker invertebrate

Buatois et al., 2017

Category of architectural design: 2.79. Groove bioerosion traces.

Knaust, 2012a

Unbranched, groove.

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
Paes Neto, V. D., Parkinson, A. H., Pretto, F. A., Soares, M. B., Schwanke, C., Schultz, C. L., Kellner, A. W. 2016. Oldest evidence of osteophagic behavior by insects from the Triassic of Brazil. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 453, 30-41. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.03.026
Roberts, E. M., Rogers, R. R., Foreman, B. Z. 2007. Continental insect borings in dinosaur bone: Examples from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar and Utah. Journal of Paleontology 81, 1, 201–208. DOI:10.1666/0022-3360(2007)81[201:CIBIDB]2.0.CO;2
Klassificering
Organism groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
Bioerosional trace fossils
FamilyCircolitidae
GenusCircolites
Ericichnus
Osteocallis
Speciesinfestans
leonardii
mandibulus
GenusPlanavolites
References based on distribution