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  • Introduction to Ichnology   - Anthony J. Martin's extensive and comprehensive website about plant and animal trace fossils. Includes information on all aspects of studying traces fossils, the Ichnology Newsletter, Trace Fossil Image Database, a trace fossil bibliography, and links to related websites.

  • Dinosaur Tracks and Ichnology - Provides a number of resources on trace fossils which are any marks, or other evidence, left behind by an animal while it was still alive.
  • Ichnology - The study of tracks, trails, footprints and other animal traces. Photographs of a number of modern, archaeological and paleontological traces.
  • Ichnology Research Group - A multidisciplinary team of graduate and postgraduate researchers at the University of Alberta led by Professor S. George Pemberton working on trace fossil problems.
  • Ichnology: The Study of Tracks and Traces - Ewan Wolff of the Montana State University Geoscience Education Web Development Team, provides links to a number of resources on traces, tracks and trackways.
  • Precambrian Fossils - Possible Precambrian trace fossils collected in the Van Horn region of Texas.
  • Virtual Ichnology - Computer model of trace fossil development through time. Part of the Computational Paleontology website.