zombie taxon

短语

词形变化

zombie taxa 复数 zombie taxa

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A taxon that falsely appears to persist until, or reappear at, a time in the fossil record later than the taxon's actual point of extinction, due to fossils of organisms belonging to the taxon having been eroded from their original strata and redeposited in the source sediments for younger strata.

    生物

词源

Referring to the fossil having been mobile, or "walking", long after the death of the original organism.

来源：wiktionary