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Bibliography of bioerosional trace fossils

Toom, U.

Abstract

Bioerosion is mostly used for the breakdown of different hard substrates through the biological activities of animals, plants and microbes that produce both mechanical and chemical erosion.

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First study of continental bioerosion traces on vertebrate remains from the Cretaceous of Algeria

Benyoucef, M., Bouchemla, I.

Cretaceous Research

Year: 2023 | Volume: 152 | Pages: 105678 | article in journal

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Bone-eating marine worms: habitat specialists or generalists?

Vrijenhoek, R. C., Collins, P., Van Dover, C. L.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Year: 2008 | Volume: 275 | Pages: 1963-1964 | article in journal

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Observations on reef coral undermining by the Caribbean excavating sponge Cliona delitrix (Demospongiae, Hadromerida)

Chaves-Fonnegra, A., Zea, S.

Porifera Research. Biodiversity, Innovation and Sustainability. Livros de Museu Nacional 28

Year: 2007 | Pages: 247-254 | article in book

Trace fossils on penguin bones from the Miocene of Chubut, southern Argentina

Cione, A. L., Acosta Hospitaleche, C., Pérez, L. M., Laza, J. H., César, I.

Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology

Year: 2010 | Volume: 34 | Pages: 433-454 | article in journal

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The prevalence of invertebrate bioerosion on Mesozoic marine reptile bone from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the United Kingdom: new data and implications for taphonomy and environment

Jamison-Todd, S., Upchurch, P., Mannion, P. D.

Geological Magazine

Year: 2023 | Volume: 160 | Pages: 1701-1710 | article in journal

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Traces of the bone-eating annelid Osedax in Oligocene whale teeth and fish bones

Kiel, S., Kahl, W., Goedert, J. L.

Paläontologische Zeitschrift

Year: 2013 | Volume: 87 | Pages: 161-167 | article in journal

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Correction: The evolution of bone-eating worm diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk Group of the United Kingdom

Jamison-Todd, S., Witts, J. D., Jones, M. E. H., Tangunan, D., Chandler, K., Bown, P., Twitchett, R. J.

PLOS ONE

Year: 2025 | Volume: 20 | Pages: e0326451 | article in journal

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Bone-eating Osedax worms lived on Mesozoic marine reptile deadfalls

Danise, S., Higgs, N. D.

Year: 2015

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New occurrences of the bone-eating worm Osedax from Late Cretaceous marine reptiles and implications for its biogeography and diversification

Jamison-Todd, S., Mannion, P. D., Glover, A. G., Upchurch, P.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Year: 2024 | Volume: 291 | Pages: 20232830 | article in journal

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Fossil traces of the bone-eating worm Osedax in early Oligocene whale bone

Kiel, S., Goedert, J. L., Kahl, W.-A., Rouse, G. W.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Year: 2010 | Volume: 107 | Pages: 8656-9 | article in journal

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Bone-eating worms from the Antarctic: the contrasting fate of whale and wood remains on the Southern Ocean seafloor

Glover, A. G., Wiklund, H., Taboada, S., Avila, C., Cristobo, J., Smith, C. R., Kemp, K. M., Jamieson, A. J., Dahlgren, T. G.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Year: 2013 | Volume: 280 | Pages: 20131390 | article in journal

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Range extensions of Pacific bone-eating worms (Annelida, Siboglinidae, Osedax)

Berman, G., Johnson, S., Seid, C., Vrijenhoek, R., Rouse, G.

Biodiversity Data Journal

Year: 2023 | Volume: 11 | Pages: 11:e102803 | article in journal

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Genetic Diversity and Potential Function of Microbial Symbionts Associated with Newly Discovered Species of Osedax Polychaete Worms

Goffredi, S. K., Johnson, S. B., Vrijenhoek, R. C.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Year: 2007 | Volume: 73 | Pages: 2314-2323 | article in journal

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Evolutionary innovation: a bone‐eating marine symbiosis

Goffredi, S. K., Orphan, V. J., Rouse, G. W., Jahnke, L., Embaye, T., Turk, K., Lee, R., Vrijenhoek, R. C.

Environmental Microbiology

Year: 2005 | Volume: 7 | Pages: 1369-1378 | article in journal

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Osedax: Bone-Eating Marine Worms with Dwarf Males

Rouse, G. W., Goffredi, S. K., Vrijenhoek, R. C.

Science

Year: 2004 | Volume: 305 | Pages: 668-671 | article in journal

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An inordinate fondness for Osedax (Siboglinidae: Annelida): Fourteen new species of bone worms from California

Rouse, G. W., Goffredi, S. K., Johnson, S. B., Vrijenhoek, R. C.

Year: 2018 | Volume: 4377 | article in journal

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The earliest fossil cetacean with Osedax borings: narrowing the spatiotemporal gap between Cretaceous marine reptiles and late Cenozoic whales

Jamison-Todd, S., Mannion, P. D., Upchurch, P.

Royal Society Open Science

Year: 2025 | Volume: 12 | article in journal

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Insect damage in dinosaur bones from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian) Coahuila, Mexico

Serrano-Branas, C.I., Espinosa-Chavez, B., Maccracken, S. A.

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Year: 2018 | Pages: 353-365 | article in journal

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Ichnological records associated with dermestid beetles in dinosaur bones from Lala's Place (Maastrichtian), Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico, and their taphonomic implications

Venegas-Gómez, C., Ortega-Flores, B., Estrada-Ruiz, E., Pérez-Crespo, V. A., Aguilar-Arellano, F. J.

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Year: 2024 | Volume: 147 | Pages: 105110 | article in journal

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Microborings from the deep Atlantic (Bermuda Pedestal; Blake Plateau) and Gulf of Mexico (Florida Escarpment): Borers and the ecological and diagenetic fate of the microborings

Hook, J. E.,

Year: 1991 | Pages: 1-207 | PhD thesis / Doctoral thesis / Candidate thesis

Polyphagichnium altenburgense igen. & isp. nov.: A new trace fossil from the Egerian – Eggenburgian (late Oligocene to early Miocene), Central Paratethys, Lower Austria

Steininger, F. F., Roetzel, R., Capellmann, T.

Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences

Year: 2024 | Volume: 117 | article in journal

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A new trace fossil produced by insects in fossil wood of Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Missão Velha Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil

Turman, V. Q., Peixoto, B. D. C. M., Marinho, T. D. S., Fernandes, M. A.

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Year: 2021 | Volume: 109 | Pages: 103266 | article in journal

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A new dentalite, Piscidenticulus callapezi igen. et isp. nov., on a crocodylomorph coprolite from the Upper Cretaceous of west-central Portugal

Pimentel, R. J., Hunt, A. P., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Berrocal-Casero, M.

Cretaceous Research

Year: 2025 | Pages: 106193 | article in journal

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Bone-Boring Worms: Characterizing the Morphology, Rate, and Method of Bioerosion by Osedax mucofloris (Annelida, Siboglinidae)

Higgs, N. D., Glover, A. G., Dahlgren, T. G., Little, C. T. S.

The Biological Bulletin

Year: 2011 | Volume: 221 | Pages: 307-316 | article in journal

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Evidence of Osedax worm borings in Pliocene (∼3 Ma) whale bone from the Mediterranean

Higgs, N. D., Little, C. T., Glover, A. G., Dahlgren, T. G., Smith, C. R., Dominici, S.

Historical Biology

Year: 2012 | Volume: 24 | Pages: 1-9 | article in journal

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