The collection and dissemination of vertebrate ichnological data is struggling to keep up with
techniques that are becoming commonplace in the wider palaeontological field. A standard …

The trace-fossil record provides a wealth of information to track the rise and early evolution
of animals. It comprises the activity of both hard-and soft-bodied organisms, is continuous …

Ichnology is the study of traces created in the substrate by living organisms. This is the first
book to systematically cover basic concepts and applications in both paleobiology and …

A uniform approach to ichnotaxonomy has been for the most part positively received by the
scientific community. We carry it further here, presenting a revised treatment of trace fossil …

Locomotion over deformable substrates is a common occurrence in nature. Footprints
represent sedimentary distortions that provide anatomical, functional, and behavioral …

Ediacaran trace fossils provide key paleontological evidence for the evolution of early
animals and their behaviors. Thus far, however, this fossil record has been limited to simple …

An early Paleozoic tectonic event, the Kurgiakh orogeny, has long been known from the
western Tethyan Himalaya, and it is conspicuously recorded by an angular unconformity …

Fossil tracks represent a direct window onto the lives of extinct organisms, being formed and
preserved in situ. Because track morphology is determined by limb motion, foot anatomy and …

The colonization of land was one of the major events in Earth history, leading to the
expansion of life and laying the foundations for the modern biosphere. We examined trace …

Bone is a substrate for bioerosion at equal rank with xylic and lithic substrates. Accordingly,
borings in bone have to be identified in an analogous way to other ichnogenera coined for …