crotovine

crotovine (countable and uncountable, plural crotovines)

1. A paleoburrow that has become filled with soil.
   • 1934, Technical Communication - Imperial Bureau of Soil Science:

     Traces of the activities of rodents can often be seen in the presence of “crotovines,” dark-coloured patches near the bottom of the humus horizon, formed from old burrows filled up with black earth from above.

   • 2005 December, Zoltán Horváth, Erika Michéli, Andrea Mindszenty, Judit Berényi-Üveges, “Soft-sediment deformation structures in Late Miocene–Pleistocene sediments on the pediment of the Mátra Hills (Visonta, Atkár, Verseg): Cryoturbation, load structures or seismites”, in Tectonophysics, volume 419, numbers 1-4:

     Unit 1. Pale yellowish brown silty clay penetrated by abundant crotovine.

   • 2013, Richard A. Fariña, Sergio F. Vizcaíno, Gerry De Iuliis, Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America, →ISBN, page 222:

     For example, whereas Quintana (1992) proposed Eutatus, Propraopus, or Pampcztherium typum as the probable excavators of a paleocave near Mar del Plata (southern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina), Imbellone and Teruggi (1988) and Imbellone et al. (1990) tentatively attributed some burrows near La Plata (northeastern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) to Eutatus seguini or Pampcltherium typum, and Bergqvist and Maciel (1994) attributed large crotovines (paleoburrows that have been filled in by sediment) in Rio Grande do Sul (southern Brazil) to the pampatheres Pampatherium and Holmesina, and to Propraopus.

   • 2016, Marcos Cenizo, Esteban Soibelzon, Mariano Magnussen Saffer, “Mammalian predator–prey relationships and reoccupation of burrows in the Pliocene of the Pampean Region (Argentina): new ichnological and taphonomic evidence”, in Historical Biology, volume 28, number 8:

     Here we describe an unusual fossil assemblage found inside a crotovine from the late Pliocene Chapadmalal 'Formation' (Buenos Aires Province).