Ichnogenus

Okay kiddo, so you know how animals leave tracks or footprints when they walk, right? Well, sometimes these footprints can turn into fossils – that's like a really, really old rock with the shape of the footprint in it.

Now, sometimes we find these fossils and we can tell what kind of animal made the footprints just by looking at its shape. So, when scientists find a bunch of footprints that all look the same, they give them a special name called an ichnogenus.

Basically, an ichnogenus is a group of footprints that all look the same, and that scientists use to identify which animal made them. It's like giving the footprints a name tag so we can keep track of them and learn more about the animals that made them. Cool, huh?