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
Pimentel, R. J., Hunt, A. P., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Berrocal-Casero, M. 2025. A new dentalite, Piscidenticulus callapezi igen. et isp. nov., on a crocodylomorph coprolite from the Upper Cretaceous of west-central Portugal. Cretaceous Research 106193. DOI:10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106193
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
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
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
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
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