Trace fossils concepts, problems, prospects / edited by William Miller, III.

Other author Miller, William Charles, 1952-
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoAmsterdam, Netherlands ; Boston [Mass.] : Elsevier,
Descriptionxxiv, 611 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from eBook - Earth and Planetary Sciences 2007
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Contents Introduction: a user's guide / William Miller, III -- Memorial to Roland Goldring (1928-2005) / John E. Pollard -- The historical background of ichnology: The Wadden Sea, cradle of invertebrate ichnology / Gerhard C. Cadée and Roland Goldring. The antecedents of invertebrate ichnology in North America : the Canadian and Cincinnati schools / S. George Pemberton, James A. MacEachern and Murray K. Gingras. Edward Hitchcock and Roland Bird : two early titans of vertebrate ichnology in North America / S. George Pemberton, Murray K. Gingras and James A. MacEachern. The ichnofacies paradigm : a fifty-year retrospective / James A. MacEachern ... [et al.] -- Concepts, methods, theory, and connections to the earth and biological sciences: Whats in a name? : nomenclature, systematics, ichnotaxonomy / Markus Bertling. Taphonomy of trace fossils / Charles E. Savrda. Use of trace fossils in genetic stratigraphy / James A. MacEachern ... [et al.]. The application of trace fossils to biostratigraphy / Robert B. MacNaughton. Trace fossils and marine benthic oxygenation / Charles E. Savrda. Climatic control of marine trace fossil distribution / Roland Goldring, Gerhard C. Cadée and John E. Pollard. Climatic controls on continental trace fossils / Stephen T Hasiotis, Mary J. Kraus and Timothy M. Demko. The trace-fossil record of vertebrates / Stephen T. Hasiotis ... [et al.]. Zoophycos and the role of type specimens in ichnotaxonomy / Davide Olivero. Ichnofacies, ichnocoenoses, and ichnofabrics of Quaternary shallow-marine to dunal tropical carbonates : a model and implications / H. Allen Curran. Deep-sea ichnology : development of major concepts / Alfred Uchman. Continental ichnology : fundamental processes and controls on trace fossil distribution / Stephen T. Hasiotis. Invertebrate ichnology of continental freshwater environments / Luis Alberto Buatois and María Gabriela Mángano. Traces of gastropod predation on molluscan prey in tropical reef environments / Sally E. Walker. Early history of symbiosis in living substrates : trace-fossil evidence from the marine record / Leif Tapanila and A.A. Ekdale. Macroborings and the evolution of marine bioerosion / Mark A. Wilson. Microborings and microbial endoliths : geological implications / r Ingrid Glaub ... [et al.]. Stromatolites : a 3.5-billion-year ichnologic record / Russell S. Shapiro. Trace fossils in evolutionary paleoecology / María Gabriela Mángano and Luis Alberto Buatois -- Advances, fresh approaches, and new directions: Importance and usefulness of trace fossils and bioturbation in paleoceanography / Ludvig Löwemark. Theoretical and experimental ichnology of mobile foraging / Karen Koy and Roy E. Plotnick. Material constraints on infaunal lifestyles : may the persistent and strong forces be with you / Peter A. Jumars ... [et al.]. Complex trace fossils / William Miller, III. A constructional model for Zoophycos / Davide Olivero and Christian Gaillard. Arthropod tracemakers of Nereites? : neoichnological observations of juvenile limulids and their paleoichnological applications / Anthony J. Martin and Andrew K. Rindsberg. Macaronichnus isp. associated with Piscichnus waitemata in the Miocene of Yonaguni-jima Island, southwest Japan / Nobuhiro Kotake. Meiobenthic trace fossils as keys to the taphonomic history of shallow-marine epicontinental carbonates / Dirk Knaust. Ichnotaxonomic review of dendriniform borings attributed to foraminiferans : Semidendrina igen. nov. / Richard G. Bromley ... [et al.]. Ecological and evolutionary controls on the composition of marine and lake ichnofacies / Molly F. Miller and David S. White. Trace fossils in an archaeological context : examples from bison skeletons, Texas, U.S.A. / Dixie L. West and Stephen T. Hasiotis. Ichnofacies of an ancient erg : a climatically influenced trace fossil association in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, southern Utah, U.S.A. / A.A. Ekdale, Richard G. Bromley and David B. Loope. Endobenthic response through mass-extinction episodes : predictive models and observed patterns / Jared R. Morrow and StephenT. Hasiotis.
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LCCN 2010459179
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