Trace Fossil AnalysisThis definitive textbook by a renowned field observer and analyst of trace fossils concentrates on the most distinctive examples, mostly made by infaunal invertebrates in originally soft sediments. It covers the whole geologic column and ranges from deep-sea to shallow-marine and continental environments. The book is designed to foster interpretative skills using the author's own drawings. They are thematically grouped in 75 plates that form the core for the descriptive text and annotated references. A glossary of ichnological terms is also provided. This book’s author is perhaps the world’s most acknowledged expert in the field of trace fossils. |
Contents
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Fish Trails | 14 |
Potsdam Sandstone Trackways | 28 |
Burrowing Behavior of Silurian Trilobites | 42 |
Rhizocoralliids | 56 |
Asterozoan Resting Traces | 70 |
Burrows of Short Bulldozers | 75 |
Echinoid Burrows | 78 |
Chondritids | 142 |
Deepsea Farmers | 145 |
Meandering | 148 |
Graphoglyptids I | 150 |
Graphoglyptids II | 152 |
Graphoglyptids III | 154 |
Paleodictyon | 156 |
PseudoTraces | 159 |
Molluscan Bulldozers | 80 |
Paleozoic Psammichnitids | 82 |
Psammichnitid Behavioral Evolution | 84 |
Bi and Tripartite Backfill Bodies | 86 |
Burrows of Wormlike Bulldozers | 89 |
Trace Fossil Classification | 92 |
Unbranched Burrows | 94 |
Spiral Burrows | 96 |
Nereitids | 98 |
Gyrochortids | 100 |
Burrows of Stripminers | 103 |
Modern UTubes | 106 |
Backfill Structures | 108 |
PostPaleozoic Zoophycos | 110 |
Daedaloid Burrows | 112 |
Lophocteniids | 114 |
Arthrophycid Burrows | 117 |
Teichichnid Burrows | 120 |
Arthrophycids I | 122 |
Arthrophycids II | 124 |
Arthrophycids III | 126 |
Arthrophycids IV | 128 |
Probers | 131 |
Asterosomids | 134 |
Medusiform Burrows Gyrophyllitids | 136 |
Various Fucoids | 138 |
Undermat Miners | 140 |
Xenophyophoria | 162 |
Tool Marks | 164 |
Synsedimentary Structures | 166 |
Diagenetic Structures | 168 |
Tectograms | 170 |
Earliest Trace Fossils | 173 |
PreEdiacaran Dubiostructures | 176 |
Ediacaran Sole Features | 178 |
Traces of Early Molluscs | 180 |
Treptichnus pedum | 182 |
The Cambrian Revolution | 184 |
Cruziana Stratigraphy | 187 |
Stratigraphic and Paleogeographic Distribution | 190 |
Cambrian Trilobite Burrows | 192 |
Ordovician Trilobite Burrows | 194 |
Silurian to Carboniferous Trilobite Burrows | 196 |
TransGondwanan Seaway | 198 |
Ichnofacies | 201 |
Global Ichnofacies | 204 |
Postturbidite Ichnocoenoses | 206 |
Frozen Tiering and Telescoping in ShallowMarine Settings | 208 |
Interactions between Trace Fossils | 210 |
Solnhofen Mortichnia | 212 |
Glossary | 215 |
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active analysis animal appears arthropod associated backfill base became become bedding bedding plane behavior body bottom branches burrows Cambrian Carboniferous casts central Chondrites complex contrast Cretaceous Cruziana Daedalus deep deposits Description direction discussed distinctive Early environments evolution examples facies feeding figured flysch footprints Formation front function Geol Geologie Germany graphoglyptids ichnospecies impressions interpretation Italy Jurassic kind later layer legs less lobes looks Lower maker marine marks meanders mode observed occur Ordovician organisms origin patterns Permian Plate preserved probably probes produced reach record referred remains represent resembles resting rocks sand Sandstone scratches sediment seen Seilacher sets shaft shell shown side Silurian similar smaller specimen spiral spreite structures surface tail tion trace fossils tracks trackways trails trilobite tube tunnel turbidite turn undertracks Upper vertical worm Zoophycos