Trace Fossil Analysis

• Main Author: Seilacher, Adolf (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Paleontology.; Sedimentology.; Earth Sciences.

Trace fossils record the behavior of animals at the very spot where they lived millions of years ago. Their growing interest derives from the intimate connection between ichnology and sedimentology and their combined relevance for paleoenvironmental reconstructions, basin analysis, and petroleum exp...

Table of Contents:

• Vertebrate Tracks
• Arthropod Trackways
• Trilobite Burrows
• Arthropod Tunnel Systems
• Resting Traces
• Burrows of Short Bulldozers
• Burrows of Wormlike Bulldozers
• Burrows of Stripminers
• Arthrophycid Burrows
• Probers
• Deepsea Farmers
• Pseudo-Traces
• Earliest Trace Fossils
• Cruziana Stratigraphy
• Ichnofacies.