ich·nol·o·gy

(ĭk-nŏl′ə-jē)

The branch of paleontology dealing with the study of fossilized footprints, tracks, burrows, or other traces as evidence of the activities of the organisms that produced them.

[Greek ikhnos, footprint + -logy.]

ich′no·log′i·cal (-nə-lŏj′ĭ-kəl) adj.

ich·nol′o·gist n.

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ichnology

(ɪkˈnɒlədʒɪ)

(Palaeontology) the study of trace fossils

[C19: from Greek ikhnos footprint, track]

ichnological adj

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ichnology

the branch of paleontology that studies fossil footprints. Also called ichnolithology. — ichnological, adj.

See also: Fossils

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ichnologie

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References in periodicals archive

Late Carboniferous paleoichnology reveals the oldest full-body impression of a flying insect.

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

Since then, the Agost section has been studied by numerous authors (e.g., von Hillebrandt, 1974; Groot et al., 1989; Smit, 1990; Canudo et al., 1991; Martinez-Ruiz et al, 1992, 1997; Ortega-Huertas et al, 1995, 1998; Molina et al, 1996, 2001; Pardo et al, 1996; Arenillas, 2000; Arz, 2000; Alegret, 2003; Alegret et al, 2003), who analysed the micropaleontology, paleoichnology, biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, mineralogy and geochemistry.

El limite Cretacico/Paleogeno del corte de Agost revisado: reconstruccion paleoambiental y patron de extincion en masa

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