ich·nite

(ĭk′nīt′) also ich·no·lite (-nō-līt′)

A fossilized footprint.

[Greek ikhnos, track + -ite.]

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ichnite

(ˈɪknaɪt) or

ichnolite

(Palaeontology) a less common name for trace fossil

[C19: from Greek ikhnos footprint, track + -ite¹]

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References in periodicals archive

Baird first recorded the presence of this ichnotaxon in 1959, identifying it as a "...problematic double-gouge ichnite..." in his field notes (Baird MS, p.

Stratigraphic and temporal context and faunal diversity of Permian-Jurassic continental Tetrapod assemblages from the Fundy rift basin, eastern Canada

The original diagnosis was revised by Haubold (1971), who described this ichnite as an ectaxonic track, asymmetric, from semiplantigrade to plantigrade.

First report of a Late Jurassic lizard-like footprint (Asturias, Spain)/Primera cita de una huella lacertoide en el Jurasico Superior (Asturias, Espana)

The Upper Cretaceous and lowermost Paleocene deposits of South-central Pyrenees (Northern Spain) have yielded abundant palynological, macrophytes and vertebrate sites, the latter containing bones, eggs, and ichnite assemblages.

The importance of microscopic examinations of eggshells: discrimination of bioalteration and diagenetic overprints from biological features/Importancia de la microscopia en el examen de cascaras de huevos: discriminacion entre bioalteracion y senales diageneticas de las caracteristicas biologicas

Commingled with the invertebrate trace fossils are abundant vertebrate ichnites, including: Batrachichnus and Characichnos, which were produced by temnospondyl amphibians; Notalacerta, which was produced by diapsid reptiles; and Undichna, which was produced by fish (Getty et al.

Invertebrate trace fossils from the Pennsylvanian Rhode Island Formation of Massachusetts, USA

Vertebrate fossils (bones and ichnites) are abundant in the grey and the lower red units.

Presence of diminutive hadrosaurids (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) in the Maastrichtian of the south-central Pyrenees (Spain)

New Materials of bird ichnites from Fildes Peninsula, King George Island of Antarctica and their biogeographic significance.

Diversidad de vertebrados marino costeros de la Provincia Weddelliana en un horizonte basal (Ypresiano, Eoceno) del Alomiembro Cucullaea I, Formacion La Meseta, isla Seymour (Marambio), Antartida