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The ichnogenus Thalassinoides: burrow fossil produced by crustaceans from the Middle Jurassic, Makhtesh Qatan, southern Israel. An ichnotaxon (plural ichnotaxa) is "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", i.e. the non-human equivalent of an artifact.
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]
Argoides is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint, originally named as an ichnospecies of Ornithichnites, [1] [2] left by what was possibly an ornithopod, although due to the age of the tracks (some of which predate the oldest known ornithopod fossils), they were probably instead made by theropods. [3]
†Otozoum moodii Hitchcock, 1847 (type ichnospecies) Otozoum ("giant animal") is an extinct ichnogenus ( fossilized footprints and other markings) of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic - Middle Jurassic sandstones .
Ichnofauna is the diversity of fauna based on the ichnological (tracks and footprints) evidences.This term is often used by vertebrate paleontologists. [1] [2]Ichnofauna often uses parataxonomical names for tracks such as Deltapodus, Eubrontes, or Cruziana.
Anatrisauropus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint, possibly belonging to a saurischian. [2] It has only been discovered in Lesotho ( Molteno Formation and Karoo Basin ). Three ichnospecies are known: A. camisardi , A. ginsburgi [ 1 ] and A. hereroensis ; all of which were named by Paul Ellenberger between 1965 and 1972.
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Characichnos (meaning "score trace") is an ichnogenus of possibly dinosaurian tetrapod footprint. It includes a single species, C. tridactylus , known from prints found in the Middle Jurassic Saltwick Formation of Yorkshire , United Kingdom .