Chabutolithes isp.


Description: Chabutolithes is a horizontally to obliquely oriented, bilobate burrow showing numerous scratchmarks oblique to perpendicular from the burrow midline (superficially similar to Rusophycus). Probable tracemaker was a burrowing wasp, possibly Pompilidae, that used the structure as a nest.

Age: Oligocene
Formation: Sarmiento
Location: Patagonia, Argentina
Collector: T. Bown
Photographer: A. J. Martin

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