Teredolites

{{Short description|Trace fossil}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{Ichnobox

| image = Teredolites 012416.jpg

| image_caption = Teredolites; an ichnogenus formed by boring bivalves in wood.

| taxon = Teredolites

| authority = Leymerie, 1842

| type_ichnospecies = Teredolites clavatus

| type_ichnospecies_authority = Leymerie, 1842

| synonyms_ref ={{cite journal|last1=Wisshak|first1=M.|last2=Knaust|first2=D.|last3=Bertling|first3=M.|year=2019|title=Bioerosion ichnotaxa: review and annotated list|journal=Facies|volume=65|issue=2|page=24|doi=10.1007/s10347-019-0561-8|bibcode=2019Faci...65...24W }}{{Cite journal|last1=Bolotov |first1=I. N. |last2=Aksenova |first2=O. V. |last3=Vikhrev |first3=I. V. |last4=Konopleva |first4=E. S. |last5=Chapurina |first5=Y. E. |last6=Kondakov |first6=A. V. |title=A new fossil piddock (Bivalvia: Pholadidae) may indicate estuarine to freshwater environments near Cretaceous amber-producing forests in Myanmar |year=2021 |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 6646 |doi=10.1038/s41598-021-86241-y |pmid=33758318 |pmc=7988128 |bibcode=2021NatSR..11.6646B }}

| synonyms =

• Martesites {{small|Vitális, 1960}}
• Palaeoclavaria {{small|Poinar & Brown, 2003}}

}}

File:Teredolites clavatus syn -Palaeoclavaria burmitis.png]]

Teredolites is an ichnogenus of trace fossil, characterized by borings in substrates such as wood or amber.

Club-shaped structures rimming mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber were formerly identified as the fungal sporocarps Palaeoclavaria burmitis. A 2018 study re-identified the structures as domichnia (crypts) bored in the amber nodules by bivalves of the pholadid subfamily Martesiinae. The borings are comparable with Teredolites clavatus and ''Gastrochaenolites lapidicus'' .{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=R. D. A. |last2=Ross |first2=A. J. |year=2018 |title=Amberground pholadid bivalve borings and inclusions in Burmese amber: implications for proximity of resin-producing forests to brackish waters, and the age of the amber |journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |volume=107 |issue=2–3 |pages=239–247 |doi=10.1017/S1755691017000287|s2cid=204250232 }} Due to the substrate of the Myanmar borings being amber, the term 'amberground' was coined.