Teredolites

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

Teredolites
Teredolites; an ichnogenus formed by boring bivalves in wood.
Trace fossil classification
Ichnofamily:	†Gastrochaenolitidae
Ichnogenus:	†Teredolites Leymerie, 1842
Type ichnospecies
Teredolites clavatus Leymerie, 1842
Synonyms[1][2]
Martesites Vitális, 1960 Palaeoclavaria Poinar & Brown, 2003

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.

See also

• Ichnology