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Most researchers classify trace fossils only as far as the ichnogenus rank, based upon trace fossils that resemble each other in morphology but have subtle differences. Some authors have constructed detailed hierarchies up to ichnosuperclass, recognizing such fine detail as to identify
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Due to the chaotic nature of trace fossil classification, several ichnogenera hold names normally affiliated with animal body fossils or plant fossils. For example, many ichnogenera are named with the suffix
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Due to trace fossils' history of being difficult to classify, there have been several attempts to enforce consistency in the naming of ichnotaxa.
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under the code. This restriction was removed for ichnotaxa in the third edition of the code, published in 1985.
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based on the fossilized work of an organism", i.e. the non-human equivalent of an
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Comments on the draft proposal to amend the Code with respect to trace fossils
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ichnosuperorder and ichnoinfraclass, but such attempts are controversial.
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Miscellanea: Supplement 1, Trace Fossils and Problematica
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Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish
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Index


Thalassinoides
burrow fossil
Jurassic
Makhtesh
Israel
taxon
artifact
Ancient Greek
ἴχνος
taxon
τάξις
morphologically
ichnofossils
trace fossils
fossil
lifeforms
genus
species
ichnologists
Linnaean taxonomy
italics
Edward Hitchcock
Cochlichnus
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
unavailable
Bird ichnology
Trace fossil classification
Glossary of scientific naming
'ichno'

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