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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.
Grallator ["GRA-luh-tor"] is an ichnogenus (form taxon based on footprints) which covers a common type of small, three-toed print made by a variety of bipedal theropod dinosaurs. Grallator-type footprints have been found in formations dating from the Early Triassic through to the early Cretaceous periods.
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]
†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 .
Anomoepus is the name assigned to several fossil footprints first reported from Early Jurassic beds of the Connecticut River Valley, Massachusetts, US in 1802.. Map showing tracks of Anomoepus (green) and Grallator (blue) in Moyeni
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 ...
The ichnospecies is named in honor of Jerry MacDonald, the discoverer and local collector of the ichnofauna of the Robledo Mountains. The prints had a width of 25 mm (1 in) and consisted of symmetrical series of three to four pairs of impressions, large paddle-shaped outer tracks of 12 mm (0.5 in) in length and two or three internal linear ...
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.