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Definition of Ichnites
1. ichnite [n] - See also: ichnite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ichnites
Literary usage of Ichnites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America by Oliver Perry Hay (1902)
"ichnites. The imprints of the feet of animals on the rocks have been described
under various general names, ..."
2. Murchison in Moray: A Geologist on Home Ground : With the Correspondence of by Michael Collie, John Diemer (1995)
"We humbly submit that in his demands for evidence of the Devonian age of the
Tarbat ichnites he is too exacting both as to kind and degree. ..."
3. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"(Geol.) A general term for fossil footprints. Ichnology, that part of Geol.
which has to do with I. Ornith- ichnites are such as have been referred to birds ..."
4. Advanced Text-book of Geology, Descriptive and Industrial by David Page (1859)
"These fossil footprints; termed ichnites (from ... It is to this local development
of ichnites that we are mainly indebted for the instructive papers and ..."
5. Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young Geologists: A Book for by David Page (1869)
"Though ichnites have been discovered in all formations—from the Silurian upwards—it
is chiefly those in the New Red Sandstone (Hildburghausen in Saxony, ..."
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