ichnofossil
/ˈɪknəʊˌfɒsəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A trace fossil; a fossil record that preserves some activity of an organism, but no part of the organism itself.
Example Sentences
- "For example, an ichnofossil might be the preserved track an animal, or its burrow."
- "Suites of taphonomic factors that influence body fossils and ichnofossils are clearly not identical. Nonetheless, without too much twisting, ichnofossil-lagerstätten can be placed into the same genetic categories."
- "The only abundant ichnofossils are large and inclined structures in La Cancha Bed (Profile K), interpreted as mammal burrows."
- "Changes in the preservational environment in the thousands or millions of years between the creation of each set of prints results in these different forms of ichnofossil."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈɪknəʊˌfɒsəl/