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ichnofossils

ichnofossils is the plural of ichnofossil.

Meaning of ichnofossil

Noun

ichnofossil (plural ichnofossils)

  1. A trace fossil; a fossil record that preserves some activity of an organism, but no part of the organism itself.
    • For example, an ichnofossil might be the preserved track an animal, or its burrow.

Questions about ichnofossils

What is ichnofossils the plural of?
Ichnofossils is the plural of ichnofossil.

Words near ichnofossils in the dictionary

  1. ichnofamily
  2. ichnofauna
  3. ichnofaunal
  4. ichnofaunas
  5. ichnofossil
  6. ichnofossils
  7. ichnogenera
  8. ichnogeneric
  9. ichnogenetic
  10. ichnogenus
  11. ichnogram

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