Petroxestes

Petroxestes
Petroxestes pera borings in an Upper Ordovician hardground (Waynesville Formation, southern Ohio).
Trace fossil classification Edit this classification
Ichnofamily: †Rogerellidae
Ichnogenus: †Petroxestes
Wilson & Palmer, 1988
Type ichnospecies
Petroxestes pera
Wilson & Palmer, 1988
Ichnospecies[1]
  • P. altera Jagt et al., 2009
  • P. pera Wilson & Palmer, 1988

Petroxestes is a shallow, elongate boring (a type of trace fossil) originally found excavated in carbonate skeletons and hardgrounds of the Upper Ordovician of North America. [2][3] These Ordovician borings were likely made by the mytilacean bivalve Corallidomus as it ground a shallow groove in the substrate to maintain its feeding position.[4] They are thus the earliest known bivalve borings.[5] Petroxestes was later described from the Lower Silurian of Anticosti Island (Canada).[6] and the Miocene of the Caribbean.[7]

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  2. ^ Wilson, M.A., Palmer, T.J. (1988). "Nomenclature of a bivalve boring from the Upper Ordovician of the midwestern United States". Journal of Paleontology. 62 (2): 306–308. doi:10.1017/S0022336000029978. S2CID 131394939.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  6. ^ Tapanila, L., Copper, P. (2002). "Endolithic trace fossils in Ordovician-Silurian corals and stromatoporoids, Anticosti Island, eastern Canada". Acta Geológica Hispánica. 37: 15–20.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Pickerill, R.D., Donovan, S.K., Portell, R.W. (2001). "The bioerosional ichnofossil Petroxestes pera Wilson and Palmer from the Middle Miocene of Carriacou, Lesser Antilles". Caribbean Journal of Science. 37: 130–131.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)