ornithoidichnite

noun

A fossil track resembling that of a bird.

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Meanings

nounornithoidichnite (plural ornithoidichnites)

plural ornithoidichnites

  1. obsoletebiologyA fossil track resembling that of a bird.

    Regarding the names Ornithichnites , Ornithoidichnite , &c., as provisional merely , I now propose names for the animals that made the tracks

    1855, Edward Hitchcock, Elementary Geology

Origin

From ornithoid + ichnite.

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