Teredolites clavatus syn -Palaeoclavaria burmitis

''Teredolites'' is an

ichnogenus An ichnotaxon (plural ichnotaxa) is "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", i.e. the non-human equivalent of an artifact. ''Ichnotaxa'' comes from the Greek ίχνος, ''ichnos'' meaning ''track'' and ταξις, ''taxis'' meaning ...

of trace fossil, characterized by borings in substrates such as wood or amber. Club-shaped structures rimming mid-Cretaceous

Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...

were formerly identified as the fungal sporocarps ''Palaeoclavaria burmitis''. a 2018 study re-identified the structures as

domichnia Trace fossils are classified in various ways for different purposes. Traces can be classified taxonomically (by morphology), ethologically (by behavior), and toponomically, that is, according to their relationship to the surrounding sedimentary la ...

(crypts) bored in the amber nodules by bivalves of the pholadid subfamily Martesiinae. The borings are comparable with ''Teredolites clavatus'' and ''Gastrochaenolites lapidicus'' . Due to the substrate of the Myanmar borings being amber, the term Amberground was coined.

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Chuck D. Howell's Ichnogenera Photos
Boring fossils Paja Formation {{trace-fossil-stub

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