Meaning of ichnotaxon | Babel Free

Definitions

A grouping, analogous to a biological taxon, used to classify footprints, burrows or other trace fossils, and hence, indirectly, the organisms that might have produced them.

Examples

“Ichnotaxa are names used to identify⟳ and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, more commonly known as trace fossils. The binomial names of ichnospecies and their genera are to be written in italics.”

“It is important to note⟳ here that exactly the same ichnotaxon co-occurs with phosphatized soft-tissues in schizodont bivalves of the same age (Klug et al., 2005).”

“Parallel to the osteological record⟳ of phytosaurs, the ichnotaxon Apatopus lineatus reflects a widespread group of archosaurs living in habitats that only randomly overlapped those of fully terrestrial chirotherian trackmakers.”

“In a note⟳, Donovan (2015) cast⟳ doubt⟳ on the establishment of the ichnotaxon K. crusta by Klompmaker et al. (2014) for the branchial swellings exemplified in Figure⟳ 1.”

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