Family
Machichnidae Wisshak, Knaust et Bertling, 2019
Taxon description
Wisshak et al., 2019a
Diagnosis: Punctures to grooves, both of somewhat irregular outline, often in sets, in bone.
Ethological category: Praedichnia (predation or scavenging traces).
Selection of related publications
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LaBarge, T. W., Njau, J. K. 2024. Taxonomic reappraisal of Nihilichnus from taphonomic perspectives of crocodile predatory ecology. Ichnos 31, 1, 40-55. DOI:10.1080/10420940.2024.2353199
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
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
El Hedeny, M., Mohesn, S., Tantawy, A., El-Sabbagh, A., AbdelGawad, M., El-Kheir, G. 2023. Bioerosion traces on the Campanian turtle remains: New data from the lagoonal deposits of the Quseir Formation, Kharga Oasis, Egypt. Palaeontologia Electronica 26.3, 26.3.a40. DOI:10.26879/1315
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
Yanenko, V., Kovalchuk, O. 2023. Late Miocene Turtles of Grytsiv (western Ukraine) with Rodent Gnaw Marks on the Carapace Surface. Zoodiversity 57, 4, 311-322. DOI:10.15407/zoo2023.04.311
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
Sadlok, G. 2022. Carnivorous reptile feeding strategies and postmortem food-processing behaviors: tooth traces on bones from the Upper Triassic Grabowa Formation (southern Poland). Journal of Paleontology 96, 5, 1189-1208. DOI:10.1017/jpa.2022.16
Muñiz, F., Belaústegui, Z., Toscano, A., Ramirez-Cruzado, S., Gámez Vintaned, J. A. 2020. New ichnospecies of Linichnus Jacobsen & Bromley, 2009. Ichnos 27, 3, 344-351. DOI:10.1080/10420940.2020.1744585
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
Niedźwiedzki, G., Gorzelak, P., Sulej, T. 2011. Bite traces on dicynodont bones and the early evolution of large terrestrial predator. Lethaia 88, 87–92. DOI:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2010.00227
Jacobsen, A. R., Bromley, R. G. 2009. New ichnotaxa based on tooth impressions on dinosaur and whale bones. Geological Quarterly 53, 4, 373-382.
Muñiz, F., Toscano, A., Bromley, R. G., Esperante, R. 2009. Excepcional caso de interacción trófica entre tiburones hexanchiformes y una ballena Balaenoptera en el Plioceno Inferior de Huelva (SO de España) [Exceptional case of trophic interaction between hexanchiform sharks and a Balaenoptera whale in the Early Pliocene of Huelva (SW Spain)]. pp. 242-244.
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
Rinehart, L.F., Lucas, S.G., Spielmann, J.A. 2006. Bite marks on tetrapod bones from the Upper Triassic Chinle Group representing a new ichnogenus. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin 37, 160-163.
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