Gastrochaenolites

Gastrochaenolites is a trace fossil formed as a clavate (club-shaped) boring in a hard substrate such as a shell, rock or carbonate hardground. The aperture of the boring is narrower than the main chamber and may be circular, oval, or dumb-bell shaped (Kelly and Bromley, 1984). Gastrochaenolites is most commonly attributed to bioeroding bivalves such as Lithophaga and Gastrochaena (Kleeman, 1980). The fossil ranges from the Ordovician to the Recent (Taylor and Wilson, 2003; Vinn and Wilson, 2010). The first Lower Jurassic Gastrochaenolites ichnospecies is Gastrochaenolites messisbugi Bassi, Posenato, Nebelsick, 2017. This is the first record of boreholes and their producers (mytilid bivalves) in one of the larger bivalves of the globally occurring Lithiotis fauna which is a unique facies in the Lower Jurassic Tethys and Panthalassa.

Gastrochaenolites (G) and Entobia (E) in limestone cobble from the Los Banós Formation, Upper Miocene, SE Spain.

References
  • Kelly, S.R.A., Bromley, R.G. (1984). "Ichnological nomenclature of clavate borings". Palaeontology. 27: 793–807.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Kleemann, K.H. (1980). "Boring bivalves and their host corals from the Great Barrier Reef". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 46: 13–54.
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  • Vinn, O.; Wilson, M.A. (2010). "Early large borings from a hardground of Floian-Dapingian age (Early and Middle Ordovician) in northeastern Estonia (Baltica)". Carnets de Géologie. 2010: CG2010_L04. doi:10.4267/2042/35594. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  • Bassi, D., Posenato, R., Nebelsick, J.H., Owada, M., Domenicali, E., Iryu, Y. (2017). "Bivalve borings in Lower Jurassic Lithiotis fauna from northeastern Italy and its palaeoecological interpretation". Historical Biology. 29: 937–946. doi:10.1080/08912963.2016.1265956.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Bassi, D., Braga, J.C., Owada, M., Aguirre, J., Lipps, J.H., Takayanagi, H., Iryu, Y. (2020). "Boring bivalve traces in modern reef and deeper water macroid and rhodolith beds". Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. 7. doi:10.1186/s40645-020-00356-w.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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