@i-edwards great suggestion! @jbauer we should revisit how to document trace fossils in the eMuseum.

Hi, @i-edwards – excellent suggestion. I did some searching on iDigBio to see how other institutions include trace fossil taxonomy into their databases. It looks like may make it a Phylum – Ichnofossils then include the generic assignment. What are your thoughts on this?

We can easily change the language to be Genus/Ichnogenus to be more…[Read more]

Hi, @william-biesele – Instead of including the tracemaker taxonomy we will just include Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Ichnofossils
and leave the other fields blank, this is how other museums are seemingly doing it so we should follow suit! Then we can include information on the potential trace maker in the Field Notes section. Thank you for already…[Read more]

Hi, @i-edwards – I have taken a few ichnology courses and appreciate your sentiment but the issue is with the underlying structure of the data – which is a global standard. We can add fields as we like but I’m not sure a separate standard exists for ichnotaxa. I can chat with some colleagues about it at GSA.

We *do* have a Field Notes section…[Read more]