Teredolites

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Teredolites

Trace fossil

Teredolites is an ichnogenus of trace fossil, characterized by borings in substrates such as wood or amber.

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Teredolites clavatus in Burmese amber

Club-shaped structures rimming mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber were formerly identified as the fungal sporocarps Palaeoclavaria burmitis. a 2018 study re-identified the structures as domichnia (crypts) bored in the amber nodules by bivalves of the pholadid subfamily Martesiinae. The borings are comparable with Teredolites clavatus and Gastrochaenolites lapidicus .[3] Due to the substrate of the Myanmar borings being amber, the term 'amberground' was coined.

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References

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    Wisshak, M.; Knaust, D.; Bertling, M. (2019). "Bioerosion ichnotaxa: review and annotated list". Facies. 65 (2): 24. doi:10.1007/s10347-019-0561-8.
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    Bolotov, I. N.; Aksenova, O. V.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Konopleva, E. S.; Chapurina, Y. E.; Kondakov, A. V. (2021). "A new fossil piddock (Bivalvia: Pholadidae) may indicate estuarine to freshwater environments near Cretaceous amber-producing forests in Myanmar". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): Article number 6646. Bibcode:2021NatSR..11.6646B. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-86241-y. PMC 7988128. PMID 33758318.
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    Smith, R. D. A.; Ross, A. J. (2018). "Amberground pholadid bivalve borings and inclusions in Burmese amber: implications for proximity of resin-producing forests to brackish waters, and the age of the amber". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 107 (2–3): 239–247. doi:10.1017/S1755691017000287. S2CID 204250232.
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