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Ichnospecies Classification

Ichnospecies Classification is a taxonomic practice within ichnology that distinguishes and categorizes trace fossils at the species level based on morphological distinctiveness, behavioral specificity, and stratigraphic context, serving as the fundamental unit for interpreting paleoenvironmental and ethological significance in the fossil record.

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315

Standards in herpetology and ichthyology : Part I. Standard symbolic codes for institutional resource collections in herpetology and ichthyology

Alan Leviton · Copeia · 1985 · 2.6K citations

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Review of Ichthyodectiform and Other Mesozoic Teleost Fishes and the Theory and Practice of Classifying Fossils.

Philip D. Gingerich, Colin Patterson, Donn Eric Rosen · Systematic Zoology · 1977 · 514 citations

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Tracemaking Activities of Crabs and Their Environmental Significance: The Ichnogenus Psilonichnus

Robert W. Frey, H. Allen Curran, S. George Pemberton · Journal of Paleontology · 1984 · 299 citations

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Type material of the type species of the classic theropod footprint genera<i>Eubrontes, Anchisauripus</i>, and<i>Grallator</i>(Early Jurassic, Hartford and Deerfield basins, Connecticut and Massachusetts, U.S.A.)

Paul E. Olsen, Joshua B. Smith, Nicholas G. McDonald · Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology · 1998 · 288 citations

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The paleoenvironmental and paleoecological significance of the lacustrine <i>Mermia</i> ichnofacies: An archetypical subaqueous nonmarine trace fossil assemblage

Luís A. Buatois, M. Gabriela Mángano · Ichnos/Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal traces · 1995 · 242 citations

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Authors

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    Martin G. Lockley

    University of Colorado Denver, United States

    25 publications · 1.1K citations

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    Ron K. Pickerill

    University of New Brunswick, Canada

    17 publications · 575 citations

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    Richard G. Bromley

    University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    14 publications · 846 citations

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    Spencer G. Lucas

    New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, United States

    14 publications · 624 citations

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    M. Gabriela Mángano

    University of Saskatchewan, Canada

    10 publications · 762 citations

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Institutions

303

  1. University of Colorado Denver

    Denver, United States

    20 h-index

    27 publications

    1.4K citations

  2. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    13 h-index

    24 publications

    905 citations

  3. University of New Brunswick

    Fredericton, Canada

    13 h-index

    23 publications

    890 citations

  4. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

    Albuquerque, United States

    12 h-index

    16 publications

    801 citations

  5. Instytut Nauk Geologicznych

    Warsaw, Poland

    10 h-index

    14 publications

    525 citations

  6. Jagiellonian University

    Krakow, Poland

    10 h-index

    14 publications

    525 citations

  7. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    10 h-index

    16 publications

    419 citations

  8. Denver Museum of Nature and Science

    Denver, United States

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    248 citations

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  2. Journal of Paleontology

    27 publications · 1.5K citations

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  3. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

    14 publications · 765 citations

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  4. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution)

    Repository · 9 publications · 226 citations

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  5. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

    8 publications · 241 citations

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