where the original maker of a trace fossil can be identified with confidence, phylogenetic classification of trace fossils is an unreasonable proposition...

dictionary. A trace fossil, also called an ichnofossil (/ˈɪknoʊˌfɒsɪl/; from Ancient Greek ἴχνος (íkhnos) 'trace, track'), is a fossil record of biological...

chaotic nature of trace fossil classification, several ichnogenera hold names normally affiliated with animal body fossils or plant fossils. For example,...

The hypothesis supported by Seilacher, that the burrows we find are trace fossils of a worm-like animal, is supported by several features of the burrows...

Paleodictyon is a trace fossil, usually interpreted to be a burrow, which appears in the geologic marine record beginning in the Precambrian/Early Cambrian...

an animal. As such, it is regarded as the earliest widespread complex trace fossil. Its earliest appearance, around 542 million years ago (mya), which was...

ichnogenus of trace fossil which resembles the marks produced by the action of a mollusc's radula on sediment. As an ichnogenus, its classification is based...

is A. elegans, representing the first named trace fossil made by a pterosaur. Agadirichnus, meaning 'trace of Agadir', was first described as lizard tracks...

Epibaion is a trace fossil imprint of the Ediacaran animals of the phylum Proarticulata, which became extinct in the Precambrian. Imprints often occurring...

Martin Lockley. In trace fossil classification schemes based on behavior, the body imprint is considered a cubichnion, or resting trace. Cheliceratichnus...

Gnathichnus is a trace fossil on a hard substrate (typically a shell, rock or hardground made of calcium carbonate) formed by regular echinoids as they...

Bifungites is a dumbbell-shaped trace fossil predominately found in Paleozoic rocks from the Cambrian to the Mississippian, believed to be the burrows...

Thalassinoides is an ichnogenus of trace fossil (fossil records of lifeforms' movement, rather than of the lifeforms themselves) used to refer to "dichotomously...

several fossil trackways that indicate that it was likely a cursorial animal that was well-adapted to desert environments. The Farlowichnus fossil material...

interpreted in many different ways in the past, but is now thought to be a trace fossil of a slug-like organism that moved by crawling to on-shore surfaces,...

paleontology can be traced back to the mythologies of indigenous peoples of many continents and the interpretation of discovered fossils as the bones of dragons...

Augerinoichnus (‘Augerino trace’) is a Permian trace fossil that has been found in New Mexico, US. The trace fossil is a corkscrew-shaped burrow that...

Monomorphichnus is an arthropod trace fossil known from the base of the Cambrian period onwards, before the first trilobite fossils. D. Fillion and R. K. Pickerill...

Nihilichnus is an ichnogenus of trace fossil. It was first described from bite traces in 2006. The ichnogenus originally contained two ichnospecies, Nihilichnus...

Retrieved 2019-10-22. A. F. d.e. Lapparent and M. A. A. Nowgol Sadat. 1975. Une trace à pas de Dinosaure dans le Lias de l’Elbourz, en Iran. Conséquences de cette...

Coelophysis. The Newark Supergroup footprints show digits II, III and IV, but no trace of the shorter digits I and V which would likely have been present in a...

only ichnospecies is H. uhangriensis, representing the largest known trace fossil made by a pterosaur. In 2002, paleontologists Koo-Geun Hwang, Min Huh...

taxon is represented by (and named for) a 90-metre (295 ft) long series of fossil tracks, or ichnites, found in the spring of 1979 in the Atlas Mountains...

Oikobesalon is an ichnogenus of unbranched, elongate burrows (a type of trace fossil) in originally soft substrate. The burrows are unbranched and straight...

Conichnus is an ichnogenus of trace fossil. Ichnology Pemberton, S. George; Frey, Robert W.; Bromley, Richard G. (1988). "The ichnotaxonomy of Conostichus...

branch in a nutrient-rich environment would. Allaby A & Allaby M (1999) Oxford Dictionary of Earth Sciences. Trace fossil Trace fossil classification v t e...

is an ichnogenus representing the fossil nests of a mud dauber. Saether, Kristian; Christopher Clowes. "Trace Fossils". Archived from the original on 2009-04-16...

Fascifodina is a marine trace fossil of uncertain origin from the Ordovician of North America. It has either been interpreted as arm traces of an orthocerid...

Burrinjuckia is an ichnogenus of bioclaustrations (a type of trace fossil). Burrinjuckia includes outgrowths of the brachiopod's secondary shell with a...

Tektonargus is a trace fossil ichnotaxon genus of insect, from the Late Jurassic period. It was discovered in a section of the Morrison Formation, located...