Teredolites

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

Teredolites clavatus in Burmese amber
Teredolites; an ichnogenus formed by boring bivalves in wood.

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 .[1] Due to the substrate of the Myanmar borings being amber, the term Amberground was coined.

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References
  1. 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.


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