ichnology

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A branch of paleontology concerned with the study of trace fossils such as footprints and burrows. Its subdisciplines include paleoichnology and neoichnology.

/ɪkˈnɒləd͡ʒɪ/

ichnology ichnologies

From ichno- + -logy.

ichnogram ichneumon

ichnologic ichnological ichnologist ornithichnology palaeoichnology

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