Ichnofossil

Quick meaning: Ichnofossil is a noun meaning (paleontology) A trace fossil; a fossil record that preserves some activity of an organism, but no part of the organism itself.

Meaning

(paleontology) A trace fossil; a fossil record that preserves some activity of an organism, but no part of the organism itself.

Example Sentences

For example, an ichnofossil might be the preserved track an animal, or its burrow.

The only abundant ichnofossils are large and inclined structures in La Cancha Bed (Profile K), interpreted as mammal burrows.

Changes in the preservational environment in the thousands or millions of years between the creation of each set of prints results in these different forms of ichnofossil.

Suites of taphonomic factors that influence body fossils and ichnofossils are clearly not identical. Nonetheless, without too much twisting, ichnofossil-lagerstätten can be placed into the same genetic categories.

Word Forms

• ichnofossils

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ichnogenus, subfossil, mesofossil, ichnomorphology, pseudofossil, ichnocoenosis.

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