A feature preserved in the geological record that was created by an organism - rather than a preserved potion (or cast) of the organism itself. Dinosaur footprints are tracefossils.
Evidence of the activity of an ancient animal (for example, burrow, boring, footprint, coprolite, bite mark).
Any indirect evidence of ancient life as represented by the effects of behavior. Includes tracks, trails, burrows, toothmarks, gastroliths, coprolites, and nests.
A sedimentary structure consisting of a fossilized track, trail, burrow, tube, or other impressions or depressions left from the life activities of an animal, plant, insect, or natural force that has been preserved in soft sediment and lithified to solid rock.
a preserved behavior such as tracks or footprints
A footprint, trackway, burrow, or other indirect evidence of a prehistoric animal. Trace fossils are distinguished from body fossils.
Fossil of a mark made by an organism, such as a burrow or track
n. An imprint of the trackway from an animal long gone that can include the animal's feeding marks, burrows, and feces, as well.
Evidence of past life in the form of tracks and trails or footprints. No actual skeleton is present. (Image)
A sedimentary structure consisting of a fossilized track, trail, burrow, tube, boring, or tunnel resulting from the life activities (other than growth) of an animal, such as a mark made by an invertebrate moving, creeping, feeding, hiding, browsing, running, or resting on or in soft sediment. It is often preserved as a raised or depressed form in sedimentary rock.
Any indication of prehistoric organic activity, such as tracks, trails, burrows, or nests.
Evidence left by organisms, such as burrows, imprints, coprolites, or footprints. Trace fossils are not preserved parts of the organism.
fossil evidence of the movement or activity of an organism; e.g., a surviving footprint or track, as opposed to an actual body fossil. From the Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs.
Biologically-produced sedimentary structures that reflect behavioral patterns. Also included in trace fossils are borings in hard substrates and fossilized fecal material.
Evidence of former life preserved as a mark on a rock. A good example would be dinosaur footprints.
Trace fossils, also called ichnofossils (IPA: , , meaning "trace" or "track") are structures preserved in sedimentary rocks that record biological activity. While we are most familiar with relatively spectacular, fossilized hard-part remains such as shells and bones (known as body fossils), trace fossils are often less dramatic, but nonetheless very important.