Ichnology

Cambridge University Press

2011

xii, 358 p.

9780521855556

Part I. Conceptual Tools and Methods: 1. The basics of ichnology; 2. Taxonomy of trace fossils; 3. Paleobiology of trace fossils; 4. The ichnofacies model; 5. The ichnofabric approach; Part II. Spatial Trends: 6. Trace fossils and paleoecology; 7. Ichnology of shallow-marine clastic environments; 8. Ichnology of marginal-marine environments; 9. Ichnology of deep-marine clastic environments; 10. Ichnology of continental environments; 11. Ichnology of carbonate environments, rocky shorelines and volcanic terrains; Part III. A Matter of Time: 12. Trace fossils in sequence stratigraphy; 13. Trace fossils in biostratigraphy; 14. Trace fossils in evolutionary paleoecology; 15. Trace fossils in paleoanthropology and archeology; References; Index

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