Species

Thatchtelithichnus holmani 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.

Synonymy list
2016     Thatchtelithichnus holmani new ichnospecies — Zonneveld et al. , pp. 809
2022     Thatchtelithichnus holmani Zonneveld et al. 2016 — Zonneveld et al. , fig. 14F
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
Klassificering
Organism groupBiota
Ichnofossil groupIchnofossils
Bioerosional trace fossils
GenusThatchtelithichnus
Speciesbagginsi
holmani
References based on distribution