Ichthyolith

An ichthyolith (from Ancient Greek ἰχθύς (ikhthús), meaning "fish", and λίθος (líthos), meaning "stone") is any disarticulated remains of a fish found in the fossil record, most often a scale, denticle or tooth. Ichthyoliths are found in nearly all marine sediment.¹

The term was coined by Doyle, Kennedy and Riedel² (1974) to denote 'fish skeletal debris'.

The term 'stratignathy',² proposed in the same paper for the time relationships of ichthyoliths, did not gain currency.

References

Sibert, Elizabeth; Cramer, Katie; Hastings, Philip; Norris, Richard (March 2017). "Methods for isolation and quantification of microfossil fish teeth and elasmobranch dermal denticles (ichthyoliths) from marine sediments". Palaeontologia Electronica. 20.1.2T: 1–14. doi:10.26879/677.
Doyle, Patricia; Kennedy, Grace; Riedel, W. R. (December 1974). "Stratignathy" (PDF). Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 26. National Science Foundation National Ocean Sediment Coring Program and University of California Scripps Institution of Oceanography: 825–905.

[1] Sibert, Elizabeth; Cramer, Katie; Hastings, Philip; Norris, Richard (March 2017). "Methods for isolation and quantification of microfossil fish teeth and elasmobranch dermal denticles (ichthyoliths) from marine sediments". Palaeontologia Electronica. 20.1.2T: 1–14. doi:10.26879/677.

[:0-2] Doyle, Patricia; Kennedy, Grace; Riedel, W. R. (December 1974). "Stratignathy" (PDF). Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 26. National Science Foundation National Ocean Sediment Coring Program and University of California Scripps Institution of Oceanography: 825–905.

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