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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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Trace fossils and grazing traces produced by Littorina and Lepidochitona, Dutch Wadden Sea

Jüch, P. J. W., Boekschoten, G. J.

Geologie en Mijnbouw

Year: 1980 | Volume: 59 | Pages: 33-42 | article in journal

Crocodylian-chelonian carnivory: Bite traces of dwarf caiman, Paleosuchus palpebrosus, in red-eared slider, trachemys scripta, carapaces

Miląn, J., Kofoed, J., Bromley, R. G.

New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin

Crocodile Tracks and Traces

Year: 2011 | Pages: 195–199 | article in journal

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A new occurrence of the Late Triassic archosaur Smok in southern Poland

Niedzwiedzki, G., Budziszewska-Karwowska, E.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Year: 2018 | Volume: 63 | article in journal

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Bite marks on an ichthyodectiform fish from Australia: possible evidence of trophic interaction in an Early Cretaceous marine ecosystem

Wretman, L., Kear, B. P.

Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology

Year: 2014 | Volume: 38 | Pages: 170-176 | article in journal

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Carnivorous reptile feeding strategies and postmortem food-processing behaviors: tooth traces on bones from the Upper Triassic Grabowa Formation (southern Poland)

Sadlok, G.

Journal of Paleontology

Year: 2022 | Volume: 96 | Pages: 1189-1208 | article in journal

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Standardizing terms for crocodile-induced bite marks on bone surfaces in light of the frequent bone modification equifinality found to result from crocodile feeding behavior, stone tool modification, and trampling

Njau, J. K., Gilbert, W.

Year: 2016 | article in journal

A diagnosis of crocodile feeding traces on larger mammal bone, with fossil examples from the Plio-Pleistocene Olduvai Basin, Tanzania

Njau, J. K., Blumenschine, R. J.

Journal of Human Evolution

Year: 2006 | Volume: 50 | Pages: 142-162 | article in journal

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Bite traces in a turtle carapace fragment from the middle Danian (Lower Paleocene) bryozoan limestone, Faxe, Denmark

Milan, J., Lindow, B. E., Lauridsen, B. W.

Year: 2011 | Volume: 59 | Pages: 61-67 | article in journal

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Bioerosion trace fossils on bones of the Cretaceous South American theropod Buitreraptor gonzalezorum Makovicky, Apesteguía and Agnolín, 2005 (Deinonychosauria)

Gianechini, F. A., de Valais, S.

Historical Biology

Year: 2016 | Volume: 28 | Pages: 533-549 | article in journal

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High frequencies of theropod bite marks provide evidence for feeding, scavenging, and possible cannibalism in a stressed Late Jurassic ecosystem

Drumheller, S. K., McHugh, J. B., Kane, M., Riedel, A., D’Amore, D. C.

PLOS ONE

Year: 2020 | Volume: 15 | Pages: e0233115 | article in journal

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Taphonomic approaches to bite mark analyses in the fossil record and applications to crocodyliform and broader Archosaurian paleobiology

Drumheller, S. K., D’Amore, D. C., Njau, J. K.

Ruling reptiles: Crocodylian biology and Archosaur paleobiology

Year: 2023 | Pages: 161–185 | article in journal

A Diagnosis of Alligator mississippiensis Bite Marks with Comparisons to Existing Crocodylian Datasets

Drumheller, S. K., Brochu, C. A.

Ichnos

Year: 2014 | Volume: 21 | Pages: 131-146 | article in journal

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Occurrence of the Ichnospecies Nihilichnus nihilicus Mikulás, Kadlecová, Fejfar Dvorák (2006) in Vertebra of Crocodylia from the Upper Miocene Solimões Formation, Acre Basin

Gregorio, E. D. B., Araújo, H. I.

Anuário do Instituto de Geociências

Year: 2020 | Volume: 43 | Pages: 408-413 | article in journal

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Who killed Micromeryx flourensianus? A case study of taphonomy and predation on ruminants in the middle Miocene of France

Aiglstorfer, M., Heizmann, E. P., Peigné, S.

Lethaia

Year: 2019 | Volume: 52 | Pages: 429-444 | article in journal

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Direct evidence of megamammal-carnivore interaction decoded from bone marks in historical fossil collections from the Pampean region

Chichkoyan, K. V., Figueirido, B., Belinchón, M., Lanata, J. L., Moigne, A., Martínez-Navarro, B.

PeerJ

Year: 2017 | Volume: 5 | Pages: e3117 | article in journal

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Evidence of carnivore gnawing on Pleistocene and Recent mammalian bones

Haynes, G.

Paleobiology

Year: 1980 | Volume: 6 | Pages: 341-351 | article in journal

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Trace fossils on megafaunal bone remains from Quaternary natural tank deposits of Brazil: A case study in João Cativo Paleontological site, Megafauna Valley, Brazil

da Costa, J. P., Trifilio, L. H. M. D. S., de Araújo-Júnior, H. I., Ximenes, C. L.

Ichnos

Year: 2023 | Volume: 30 | Pages: 39-48 | article in journal

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Exploring trace fossils on megafauna remains from the Quaternary Lagoa da Pedra tank deposit, northeastern Brazil

Andrade, L. C., Barbosa, F. H. D. S., Araújo-Júnior, H. I., Duque, R. R., Peters, E., Bampi, H., Nascimento, J. S., Oliveira, É. V.

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Year: 2024 | Volume: 149 | Pages: 105230 | article in journal

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Mosasauroid predation on an ammonite – Pseudaspidoceras – from the Early Turonian of south-eastern Morocco

Gale, A. S., Kennedy, W. J., Martill, D.

Acta Geologica Polonica

Year: 2017 | Volume: 67 | Pages: 31-46 | article in journal

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Taxonomic reappraisal of Nihilichnus from taphonomic perspectives of crocodile predatory ecology

LaBarge, T. W., Njau, J. K.

Ichnos

Year: 2024 | Volume: 31 | Pages: 40-55 | article in journal

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Modern bone modification by Dermestes maculatus and criteria for the recognition of dermestid traces in the fossil record

Parkinson, A.

Historical Biology

Year: 2023 | Volume: 35 | Pages: 567-579 | article in journal

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Osteopathology and insect traces in the Australopithecus africanus skeleton StW 431

Odes, E. J., Parkinson, A. H., Randolph-Quinney, P. S., Zipfel, B., Jakata, K., Bonney, H., Berger, L. R.

Year: 2017 | Volume: 113 | Pages: 7 | article in journal

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Bioerosion of the upper Jurassic lithographic limestone of Solnhofen (Germany) by mycorrhizal roots during the Cenozoic karstification

Knaust, D., Wisshak, M.

Facies

Year: 2025 | Volume: 71 | article in journal

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Using striated tooth marks on bone to predict body size in theropod dinosaurs: a model based on feeding observations of Varanus komodoensis, the Komodo monitor

D'Amore, D. C., Blumenschine, R. J.

Year: 2012 | article in journal

Rhexoxylon piatnitzkyi and its ancient adversaries: deciphering plant-beetle interactions and its palaeoecological significance in the Ischigualasto Formation (Upper Triassic, Argentina)

Sagasti, A. J., Hernández Del Pino, S., Bodnar, J.

Historical Biology

Year: 2025 | Volume: 37 | Pages: 1078-1093 | article in journal

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