Paleodictyon
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Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
First described by Giuseppe Meneghini in 1850. From Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós, “old”) + δίκτυον (díktuon, “fishing net”).
Proper noun[edit]
Paleodictyon m
- (taxonomy) An ichnogenus of fossils usually interpreted as a burrow, appearing in the geologic marine record from the Precambrian / Early Cambrian and in modern ocean environments.
Hyponyms[edit]
- (ichnogenus): Paleodictyon imperfectum, Paleodictyon minimum (ichnospecies)
References[edit]
Paleodictyon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
