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After Ives Head in Leicestershire, where specimens have been found, plus the suffix -morph.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ivesheadiomorph
Today it means: Any of a group of fossilized structures known from Ediacaran localities in England and Newfoundland, considered to be taphomorphs, representing the poorly preserved biological remains of various contemporary taxa that decayed before burial by sediment. Full definition →