Relating to or characteristic of animals that live on the surface of the seafloor or substrate.
Derived from epifauna with the adjectival suffix -al, used to describe properties or characteristics associated with surface-dwelling fauna.
When paleontologists dig up fossils, they use 'epifaunal' to describe the organisms that lived on the ancient seafloor, which tells them about environmental conditions millions of years ago.
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