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Vertebrate Ichnology: Introduction, History, Methodology and Devonian-Neogene Tetrapod Tracks is a complete review and analysis of vertebrate trace fossils, including how vertebrate trace fossils inform our understanding of major evolutionary events. It covers all aspects of the vertebrate trace fossil record including tetrapod footprints, fish traces and other trails, burrows, nests and more. Each record is reviewed by prominent experts with extensive illustrations and can be used as a tool to solve problems of vertebrate biochronology and biogeography. Megabiases in the record are identified, and trace fossils applied to analysis and the understanding of major events in the evolutionary history of vertebrates.
This is a useful daily reference for paleontologists and geologists; and teaching professors or other researchers working in trace fossils and related fields, including university and graduate students.
Contents
1. Introduction
Section 1. The ichnology of locomotion
2. Tetrapods
3. Fish
Section 2. The ichnology of consumption
4. Regurgitalites
5. Consumulites
6. Coprolites
7. Gastroliths
Section 3. The ichnology of habitation and reproduction
8. Vertebrate burrows
9. Nests
10. Ichnology of reproduction (e.g., tracks showing mating or display)
Section 4. Synthesis (analyzes the vertebrate trace fossil record, its strengths and weakness and application to understanding vertebrate evolutionary history)
11. Megabiases in the fossil record of vertebrate traces
12. Ichnofacies
13. Ichnology and biochronology
14. Ichnology and biogeography
15. Traces and major evolutionary events in vertebrate history
16. Prospectus and issues in vertebrate ichnology
