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 hooves or paws rather than feet, while "shoeprints" is the specific term for prints made by shoes. They ...

) evidences. This term is often used by vertebrate

paleontologists Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

.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 consisting of elongate, bilobed, approximately bilaterally symmetrical burrows, usually preserved along bedding planes, with a sculpture of repeated striations that are mostly oblique to the long dimension. It is fo ...

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

References

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