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Change reporting of trace fossils on classic summary page #191

Open pnovack-gottshall opened 2 years ago

pnovack-gottshall commented 2 years ago

Request: Add a sentence to explicitly tag trace fossils to the basic info tab, using text like "It is considered to be a trace fossil (ichnotaxon)." (The tag is "flagged" as "F" in the "Taxonomic names" records (and also in the Fossil occurrences records).

Rationale: The basic info tab has a sentence tagging "form taxa" but not trace fossils. E.g., https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=83915 Adding a similar tag for trace fossils will clarify the preservation status for named taxa.