A uniform approach to ichnotaxonomy has been for the most part positively received by the
scientific community. We carry it further here, presenting a revised treatment of trace fossil …

Bioerosion is the destruction of hard substrates resulting from biological activity, and plays a
relevant role in the ecological interactions and coastal dynamics processes. Several …

Fossilized faeces (bromalites) are common in the geological record and have been
recognized for centuries, first for their peculiarity and later for sedimentological and …

Borings and bite marks on fossil turtle carapaces and plastra from the Miocene Moghra
Formation, northern Egypt, are herein described. All fossil turtle material from Moghra …

Organisms that colonize wood are subject to a taphonomic tragedy—the richer and more
diverse they become, the greater the deterioration of the host wood and the less likely such …

Wood boring represents a common feeding and survival strategy in several lineages of
beetles. The larvae of wood-boring beetles hatch and excavate tunnels in wood during their …

An endolithic lifestyle in mineralized substrates has evolved multiple times in various phyla
including Bryozoa. The family Penetrantiidae includes one genus with ten extant and two …

The bioerosion trace fossils are described from the Pliocene crop** out at the Agua
Amarga Subbasin (Betic Cordillera, Almería Province, SE Spain). They are associated with …

Trypanites is the most common macroboring with a global occurrence throughout the
Phanerozoic and is the eponym of the Trypanites ichnofacies. It has great value for the …

The Quaternary vertebrate paleontology of the Brazilian Intertropical Region is well-known,
but there are only a few publications on bone ichnology. In this paper, we analyzed trace …