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Ichnotaxon comes from the Ancient Greek ἴχνος (íchnos) meaning "track" and English taxon, itself derived from Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis) meaning "ordering". [ 1 ] Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils , more commonly known as trace fossils ( fossil records of lifeforms ...
The trackway Protichnites from the Cambrian, Blackberry Hill, central Wisconsin. A trace fossil, also known as an ichnofossil (/ ˈ ɪ k n oʊ f ɒ s ɪ l /; from Greek: ἴχνος ikhnos "trace, track"), is a fossil record of biological activity by lifeforms but not the preserved remains of the organism itself. [1]
Using footprints as objects of divination is "ichnomantic" Ichnomancy (from ichno-"track, footstep" + -mancy "method of divination") is the divination of a person's qualities (e.g., posture, position) or character (i.e., personality) by means of footprints or other such human-made tracks.
Farlowichnus is an ichnogenus of small theropod dinosaur footprint. It includes a single species, F. rapidus, known from prints found in the Early Cretaceous Botucatu Formation of Brazil. Farlowichnus is known from several fossil trackways that indicate that it was likely a cursorial animal that was well-adapted to desert environments.
Ornithichnites is an ichnotaxon of mammal footprint that was originally classified as a dinosaur. [1] The name was originally used by Edward Hitchcock in 1836 as a higher group name rather than a specific ichnogenus, [1] and thus the name does not have priority over specific ichnogeneric names even if they were first identified as Ornithichnites.
An ichnospecies of dinosaur footprint from the Early Cretaceous of Gulin County, Sichuan, China was discovered and named as Eubrontes nobitai. The epithet of scientific name commemorate Nobita Nobi , a fictional character in the Doraemon series, for the movies Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur and Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur , which have inspired ...
Chelichnus is an ichnogenus of Permian tetrapod footprint. The name means tortoise traces , because the shape of the prints was originally mistakenly thought to be produced by a tortoise. [ 1 ] This is now known to be incorrect, as tortoises did not evolve until much later.
Protochirotherium, also known as Protocheirotherium (‘first hand-beast’), is a Late Permian?- Early Triassic ichnotaxon (trace fossil) consisting of five-fingered (pentadactyl) footprints and whole tracks, discovered in Germany and later Morocco, Poland and possibly also Italy.