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trace fossil

n.
A fossil consisting of an imprint or mark left by an organism, such as a footprint or a tunnel, in contrast to a fossil of an organism's remains.
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trace fossil

n
(Palaeontology) the fossilized remains of a track, trail, footprint, burrow, etc, of an organism
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trace′ fos`sil


n.
a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
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Kumar & Kashkari (1987) described similar fossils from the Pin and Parahio valley sections of the Takche Formation as a trace fossil Paleodictyon meneghini.
Warm-water Dasycladaceae algae from the Late Ordovician of the Parahio Valley, Spiti, India / Soojaveelised Dasycladaceae vetikad India Parahio oru Hilis-Ordoviitsiumis
The fossil tracks offer "some of the earliest known evidence for animal appendages and extend the earliest trace fossil record of animals with appendages from the early Cambrian (485 million to 541 million years ago) to the late Ediacaran Period."
Earliest animal footprints found in China: study
The studied trace fossil assemblage of the fine quartz sands is characterized by a few horizontal structures with predominance of suspension-feeders or passive tubicolous carnivores among the trace makers and corresponds to the Skolithos to Cruziana ichnofacies.
Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of a sand-dominated coastal system of the Upper Miocene of eastern Guadalquivir Basin (south Spain): fossil assemblages, ichnology and taphonomy
Caption: Dinosaur tracks like this one, probably from a small ornithopod in Australia, are just one of many kinds of trace fossil.
Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils
The sandstone/siltstone-claystone heteroliths that underlie and overlie such thick claystone beds are often characterized by sparse to abundant trace fossil associations, dominantly Planolites isp., Thalassinoides isp., and Paleophycus isp., along with abundant plant fossils.
Chondrites isp. indicating late Paleozoic atmospheric anoxia in eastern peninsular India
Insect Trace Fossil Associations in Paleosols: The Coprinisphaera Ichnofacies.
Primer hallazgo de un escarabajo en un ichnofosil Coprinisphaeridae: Phanaeus violetae n. sp. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) de una bola de cangahua del Ecuador
The interpretation by Mufiiz et al (2010) that the trace fossil Trypanites ionasi was caused by an Osedax-likc animal is not supported by our evidence.
Bone-boring worms: characterizing the morphology, rate, and method of bioerosion by Osedax mucofloris (Annelida, Siboglinidae)
rosea shells form distinct traces, comparable to the trace fossil Caulostrepsis (Rodrigues et al.
Biotic interactions recorded in shells of recent rhynchonelliform brachiopods from San Juan Island, USA
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