The Palaeobiology of Trace Fossils - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801848512 ISBN 13 : 9780801848513

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Ichnology - the study of trace fossils such as tracks, burrows and eggs - presents the scientist with a "jigsaw puzzle with a difference", writes Stephen Donovan. While body fossils of organisms are generally recognizable as belonging to a particular organic group, he explains, trace fossils are usually anonymous. Except in rare cases in which the animal dies at the end of its trace, or the trace has an especially distinctive morphology - such as the dinosaur trackway - identifying trace fossils is almost always a matter of some speculation. Nonetheless, lessons learned from the study of trace fossils have proven invaluable in fields ranging from petroleum exploration to paleobiology. In this volume Donovan brings together a group of the world's leading experts to focus on the paleobiological and evolutionary aspects of ichnology in both marine and non-marine environments. Rather than emphasizing the importance of trace fossil data to geologists in reconstructing the Earth's history, this book presents new information on the biology of the organisms that produced the trackways and the ancient environments in which they flourished.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801848512
• ISBN 13: 9780801848513
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Donovan Stephen K.
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