The Application of Ichnology
to Palaeoenvironmental and Stratigraphic Analysis publishes papers presented at the Geological Society's 2003 Lyell Meeting.
, the study of trace fossils preserving animal tracks, trails, burrows, and borings is important to paleontologists because of what it can reveal about the behavior and biomechanics of animals in the past.
, the analysis of such trace fossils, can reveal subtle details of an animal's environment, behavior, and relationships with other species.
He calls Seilacher "the acknowledged master" in the field of deciphering such traces, a discipline called ichnology
Invertebrate trace fossils: the backbone of continental ichnology
, palaeoecology and taphonomy of a Gondwanan early vertebrate habitat: insights from the Ordovician Anzaldo Formation, Bolivia.
of continental freshwater environments.
17) in a series of keynote papers (Matthew 1903, 1905) that remain definitive works in tetrapod ichnology
Upper Pennsylvanian ichnology
of Kansas City, Missouri.
The stratigraphy, sedimentology, and ichnology
of the Mabou Group and Cumberland Group (middle Carboniferous), western Cape Breton Island, eastern Canada.
Stratigraphy, sedimentology and ichnology
of the Cambrian-Ordovician Saint John Group, southern New Brunswick, Canada.
Detailed outcrop studies show that the ichnology
of five subenvironments within IFS are distinctive.