palaeoburrow

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Noun

palaeoburrow (plural palaeoburrows)

  1. Alternative form of paleoburrow
    • 1995, Dansk geologisk forening, Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, page 45:
      The general configuration of the palaeoburrows comprises vertical shafts showing branching.
    • 2003, Senckenbergiana biologica - Volume 83, Issues 1-2:
      Several tunnels, discovered over the past several decades, are interpreted as palaeoburrows built by fossil mammals, based on morphological patterns, transgressive boundaries in relation to the sedimentary units, and the presence of tracks on the walls and roofs.
    • 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:
      Proposed size types for crotovines and palaeoburrows found in the Pliocene to Holocene outcrops of south a merica according to their maximal transverse diameters.