Genus
Thatchtelithichnus Zonneveld, Bartels, Gunnell et McHugh, 2016
Taxon description
Zonneveld et al., 2016
Diagnosis: Circular to subcircular grooves with a central boss or platform, bored into a bone substrate. Grooves penetrate into the cortical layer of the bone. The central platform may consist of an unmodified platform or a rounded nubbin. Burrow walls rounded, convex. or sharp and perpendicular to the external substrate surface
Selection of related publications
Zonneveld, J., Zonneveld, Z., Bartels, W., Gingras, M., Head, J. 2022. Bone modification features resulting from barnace attachment on the bones of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), Cumberland Island, Georgia, USA: Implications for the paleoecological, and taphonimic analyses of fossil sea turtles. Palaios 37, 11, 650-670. DOI:10.2110/palo.2022.021
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