ichnotaxon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

ichnotaxon ichnotaxa

Etymology

From ichno- + taxon.

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