Ichnofauna is the diversity of fauna based on the ichnological ( tracks and

footprints Footprints are the impressions or images left behind by a person walking or running. Hoofprints and pawprints are those left by animals with hoof, hooves or paws rather than foot, feet, while "shoeprints" is the specific term for prints made by ...

) evidences. This term is often used by vertebrate

paleontologists Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...

.Mateus, O., & Milàn, J. 2010. A diverse Upper Jurassic dinosaur ichnofauna from central‐west Portugal. Lethaia, 43(2), 245-257. Ichnofauna often uses parataxonomical names for tracks such as ''Deltapodus'', ''Eubrontes'', or ''

Cruziana ''Cruziana'' is a trace fossil (fossil records of lifeforms' movement, rather than of the lifeforms themselves) consisting of elongate, bilobed, approximately bilaterally symmetrical burrows, usually preserved along bedding planes, with a sculp ...

''. Ichnofauna does not give a true content of the fauna assemblage, because of bias of preservation.

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