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The evidence of biological activity includes remains, other than body fossils, which have been left in sediments by living organisms. They reflect different aspects of life: reproduction (spores, pollen, eggs), feeding (bite marks, coprolites), movement (tracks and trails), habitat (borrows), etc. The difficulties of interpreting this sort of palaeontological evidence are unique: eggs, coprolites and trails are very rarely found associated with their maker. In the majority of cases, the makers are unknown.
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Gall, JC. (1983). Evidence of Biological Activity. In: Ancient Sedimentary Environments and the Habitats of Living Organisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68909-3_3
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