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Trace Fossils

Posted by on November 24, 2013
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Trace fossils are not actual fossils, rather what is left from the creature or fossil being there. Think of dinosaur foot prints or tracks from wild animals, or the rub marks on trees from bucks rubbing the velvet off their horns.

Worm Burrows

worm burrows

more wormrs

Individual Worm Trace

Individual Worm Trace

 

Water Worn Worm Burrows

Water Worn Worm Burrows

 

Cephalopod Imprint

ceph imprint tracers

Bivalve (Clam) Trace

Where they connected themselves to the rock boring into it.

bivalve trace

Maclurites Cast

trace macrs

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