Genus

Knethichnus Jacobsen et Bromley, 2009

Taxon description

Wisshak et al., 2019a

Predation; substrate osteic; tracemaker vertebrate

Jacobsen & Bromley, 2009

Diagnosis: Scraping structures in witch serration traces extend as parallel grooves leading in some cases away from an initial groove.

Selection of related publications
Boessenecker, R. W., Geisler, J. H, 2023. New skeletons of the ancient dolphin Xenorophus sloanii and Xenorophus simplifies sp. nov. (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of South Carolina and the ontogeny, functional anatomy, asymmetry, pathology, and evolution of the earliest Odontoceti. Diversity 15, 1154. DOI:10.3390/ d15111154
Mujal, E., Foth, C., Maxwell, E. E., Seegis, D., Schoch, R. R. 2022. Feeding habits of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis from Germany and palaeoecological implications for archosaurs. Palaeontology 65, 3, DOI:10.1111/pala.12597
Jacobsen, A. R., Bromley, R. G. 2009. New ichnotaxa based on tooth impressions on dinosaur and whale bones. Geological Quarterly 53, 4, 373-382.
Klassificering
Organism groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
Bioerosional trace fossils
FamilyMachichnidae
GenusBrutalichnus
Heterodontichnites
Knethichnus
Speciesparallelus
GenusLinichnus
Machichnus
Mandaodonites
Mikulasichnus
Nihilichnus
Selachiodentichnus
References based on distribution