• where the original maker of a trace fossil can be identified with confidence, phylogenetic classification of trace fossils is an unreasonable proposition...
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    free dictionary. A trace fossil, also known as an ichnofossil ( /ˈɪknoʊfɒsɪl/; from Greek: ἴχνος ikhnos "trace, track"), is a fossil record of biological...
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    chaotic nature of trace fossil classification, several ichnogenera hold names normally affiliated with animal body fossils or plant fossils. For example,...
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    Treptichnus (category Trace fossil stubs)
    an animal. As such, it is regarded as the earliest widespread complex trace fossil. Its earliest appearance, around 542 million years ago (mya), which was...
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    Paleodictyon (category Burrow fossils)
    Paleodictyon is a trace fossil, usually interpreted to be a burrow, which appears in the geologic marine record beginning in the Precambrian/Early Cambrian...
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    Thalassinoides (category Trace fossil stubs)
    Thalassinoides is an ichnogenus of trace fossil (fossil records of lifeforms' movement, rather than of the lifeforms themselves) used to refer to "dichotomously...
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  • Pennichnus (category Burrow fossils)
    Pennichnus formosae is a trace fossil produced by an extinct species of ambush‐predatory worm. Pan, Yu-Yen; Nara, Masakazu; Löwemark, Ludvig; Miguez-Salas...
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    Skolithos (category Burrow fossils)
    Skolithos (formerly spelled Scolithus or Skolithus) is a common trace fossil ichnogenus that is, or was originally, an approximately vertical cylindrical...
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  • Radulichnus (category Trace fossil stubs)
    ichnogenus of trace fossil which resembles the marks produced by the action of a mollusc's radula on sediment. As an ichnogenus, its classification is based...
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    Eubrontes (category Theropod trace fossils)
    S2CID 235730384. Czech article about dinosaur trace fossil finds from Slovakia Czech article about dinosaur trace fossils found in the Czech Republic Lockley,...
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