Trace fossil – Trace fossils are traces or marks left behind by an organism. They show an organism was there, but are not the actual organism itself (which would be a body fossil). Dinosaur footprints ...

The footprints are significant, Feibel said, because they fall into the category of "trace fossils"—which can include footprints, nests and burrows. Trace fossils are not part of an organism but ...

Trace fossils are the tracks and burrows left by living organisms, not physical remains such as bones or body parts. The fossils were discovered in sediment in the Corumbá region of western Brazil, ...

Trace fossils are preserved in places where subsequent mountain-forming forces did not destroy the original structure of the Cambrian sediments. These trace fossils record the oldest burrowing and ...