A fossil track or ichnite is a fossilized footprint. This is a type of trace fossil. A fossil trackway is a sequence of fossil tracks left by a single organism. Over the years, many ichnites have been found, around the world, giving important clues about the behaviour of the animals that made them. For instance, multiple ichnites of a single species, close together, suggest 'herd' or 'pack' behaviour of that species.
A reverse ichnite of the impression of Jialingpus yuechiensis, on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China.
Fossil trackway Protichnites in sedimentary stone.
Specialized marine trace trackway, Yorgia, from the Ediacaran of northern Russia.
Laetoli Site, February 2006
Footprints are the impressions or images left behind by a person walking or running. Hoofprints and pawprints are those left by animals with hooves or paws rather than feet, while "shoeprints" is the specific term for prints made by shoes. They may either be indentations in the ground or something placed onto the surface that was stuck to the bottom of the foot. A "trackway" is a set of footprints in soft earth left by a life-form; animal tracks are the footprints, hoofprints, or pawprints of an animal.
Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the Moon in 1969 on the Apollo 11 mission
Painted footprints from a child on a piece of paper
Shoeprint left at crime scene
Replica of dinosaur footprints found in La Rioja
