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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The branch of paleontology dealing with the study of fossilized footprints, tracks, burrows, or other traces as evidence of the activities of the organisms that produced them.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A branch of paleontology concerned with the study of trace fossils. It can be divided into paleoichnology and neoichnology.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The branch of science which treats of fossil footprints.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil footprints; the science of fossil footprints; the study of those animals which are known only by their footprints.
    • Word Usage
    "The study of trace fossils - called ichnology - is very useful for reconstructing ancient environments."
    Form
    ichnological    ichnologic    ichnologist   
     
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