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ichnospecies

ichnospecies noun: a level of taxonomical classification of trace fossils.

Noun

ichnospecies (plural ichnospecies)

  1. A level of taxonomical classification of trace fossils.
    • There is certainly little discussion of distinctive features that warrant the establishment of new ichnospecies. In short, the ichnospecies labels are something of a compromise. By this we mean that the use of familiar ichnogenera (Grallator, Eubrontes, and Batrachopus) acknowledges similarity...2000, Martin Lockley, Christian Meyer, Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe, Columbia University Press, page 112
    • Oldhamia encompasses six ichnospecies, O. alata, O. antiqua, O. curvata, O. flabellata, O. geniculata, and O. radiata, all of them present in lower Cambrian rocks, with a few ichnospecies persisting into the middle Cambrian (Fig. 3.5) (Seilacher et al. 2005; Herbosch and Verniers 2011; Jensen et...2016, M. Gabriela Mángano, Luis A. Buatois, “3: The Cambrian Explosion”, in M. Gabriela Mángano, Luis A. Buatois, editors, The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events: Volume 1, Springer...

Examples of ichnospecies in a sentence

  • There is certainly little discussion of distinctive features that warrant the establishment of new ichnospecies.2000, Martin Lockley, Christian Meyer, Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe, Columbia University Press, page 112:
  • A recent paper by a team from Brazil described a new ichnospecies of these tracks: Brasilichnium saltatorium.2017 March 22, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian, Walking in the footsteps of giants and gerbils: what fossil prints can tell us

Forms of ichnospecies

pluralichnospecies

Origin of ichnospecies

From ichno- (“trace”) + species, suggesting an analogy with the species level of the taxonomy of organisms.

Questions about ichnospecies

What does ichnospecies mean?
Ichnospecies means a level of taxonomical classification of trace fossils.
How do you use ichnospecies in a sentence?
There is certainly little discussion of distinctive features that warrant the establishment of new ichnospecies.
What part of speech is ichnospecies?
Ichnospecies is a noun.
What is the plural of ichnospecies?
The plural of ichnospecies is ichnospecies.

Words near ichnospecies in the dictionary

  1. ichnomorphology
  2. ichnomorphotype
  3. ichnomorphotypes
  4. ichnosite
  5. ichnosites
  6. ichnospecies
  7. ichnotaxa
  8. ichnotaxobase
  9. ichnotaxobases
  10. ichnotaxon
  11. ichnotaxonomic

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