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ichnospecies en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A level of taxonomical classification of trace fossils.
   • 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
   • 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, whereas the use of new ichnospecies names conveys the suggestion that the track assemblages are distinct in some way. 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 al. 2013). 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, page 85:

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Relateds

ichnotaxonomy · ichnology · ichnotaxon · ichnogenus · ichnofamily

Translations (3)

de Ichnospezies (level of classification of trace fossils) · fr ichnoespèce (level of classification of trace fossils) · it icnospecie (level of classification of trace fossils)