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Definition of Ichnology
1. n. The branch of science which treats of fossil footprints.
Definition of Ichnology
1. Noun. (paleontology) A branch of paleontology concerned with the study of trace fossils. It can be divided into paleoichnology and neoichnology. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ichnology
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Medical Definition of Ichnology
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ichnology
Literary usage of Ichnology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1861)
"SINCE the publication of Sir Richard Owen's able work on Palaeontology, ichnology
may be considered as fairly installed as a distinct branch of this science ..."
2. Palaeontology or a systematic summary of extinct animals and their by Richard Owen (1861)
"ichnology* In entering upon the genetic history of the class of reptiles, we have
to inquire, as in that of fishes, at what period of the earth's history ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... the gall insects, the Hessian fly, and hosts of others which would overrun
the forests and fields were it not for these diminutive creatures. ichnology ..."
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