Teredolites
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| Teredolites | |
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| Teredolites; an ichnogenus formed by boring bivalves in wood. | |
Trace fossil classification  | |
| Ichnofamily: | †Gastrochaenolitidae |
| Ichnogenus: | †Teredolites Leymerie, 1842 |
| Type ichnospecies | |
| Teredolites clavatus Leymerie, 1842 | |
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Teredolites is an ichnogenus of trace fossil, characterized by borings in substrates such as wood or 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.
