Ichnology in Shallow-Marine and Transitional Environments

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The study of fossil tracks and traces (ichnology) of shallow-marine to transitional environments is a key field of study with respect to understanding the variability of environmental parameters from inshore marginal-marine settings to the offshore transition zone. Over the last decades, ichnology has evolved from being a tool to determine bathymetry, becoming the standard palaeoenvironmental methodology by which trace fossils can be used to inform sedimentary facies models. In particular, the analysis of mixed assemblages of invertebrate and vertebrate trace fossils allows detailed palaeoenvironmental and facies analysis. This volume focuses on the ichnological record of shallow-marine to transitional environments through the geological record, in addition to modern ones through neoichnology.

Contents

Dedication

- The ichnology of shallow-marine and transitional environments / Cónsole-Gonella, C., de Valais, S., Díaz-Martínez, I., Citton, P., Verde, M. and McIlroy, D.
- High-resolution geophysical imaging of reptile burrows (San Salvador rock iguana, the Bahamas): implications for ichnology and conservation ecology / Buynevich, I. V., Rothfus, T. A., Curran, H. A., Thacker, H. A., Peronace, R., Kopcznski, K. A. and Gnivecki, P. L.
- The possible actiniarian sea anemone burrow Bergaueria hemispherica from the Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) of the Lusitanian Basin (Central Portugal) / Neto de Carvalho, C. and Paredes, R.
- Dactyloidites ottoi (Geinitz, 1849) in Bahamian Pleistocene carbonates: a shallowest-marine indicator / Curran, H. A. and Glumac, B.
- All post-Cambrian ichnospecies of Psammichnites Torell, 1870 belong to Olivellites Fenton and Fenton, 1937b / Pazos, P. J. and Gutiérrez, C.
- Bored log-grounds by teredinid bivalves in marine deposits from the Monos Formation (Upper Cretaceous) in central Cuba / Villegas-Martín, J., Serrano-Brañas, C. I., Rojas-Consuegra, R., Arano-Ruiz, A., Verde, M. and Borges-Sellen, C. R.
- Glossifungites suites and tubular tempestites in Devonian shallow-marine deposits from Paraná Basin / Sedorko, D., Netto, R. G., Villegas-Martín, J., Dasgupta, S., Tognoli, F. M. W., Plantz, J., Carelli, T. and Borghi, L.
- Ichnoassemblages from the Wilcox Formation in the Burgos Basin, northeastern Mexico / Hernández-Ocaña, M. I., Torres de la Cruz, F., Chacón Baca, E., Eguiluz de Antuñano, S. and Chávez-Cabello, G.
- Ichnological analysis and depositional setting of late Miocene marginal marine deposits from the Tafna Basin (northwestern Algeria) / Benzina, M., Cherif, A., Naimi, M. N., Hebib, H. and Bensalah, M.
- Exotic facies episodes of a carbonate platform: implications for middle and late Cambrian ecosystems and impact of bioturbation in the Alborz Basin, Iran / Bayet-Goll, A., Daraei, M., Geyer, G., Neto de Carvalho, C. and Bahrami, N.
- Departures from the archetypal deltaic ichnofacies / MacEachern, J. A. and Bann, K. L.
- Unusual sauropod slipping tracks preserved on a biostabilized tidal flat from the Lower Cretaceous of northern Patagonia, Argentina / Heredia, A. M., Pazos, P. J. and Fernández, D. E.
- Dinosaur tracks in a Cretaceous (lower Albian) braid delta system (Basque–Cantabrian Basin, western Pyrenees): linking trace fossils suites and short-term preservation windows / Díaz-Martínez, I., López-Horgue, M. A., Agirrezabala, L. M., Cónsole-Gonella, C. and Pereda-Suberbiola, X.
- Defining the Bemaraha megatracksite: an update on dinosaur ichnology in Madagascar / Wagensommer, A., Dolch, R., Ratolojanahary, T., Donato, S. and D’Orazi Porchetti, S.
- The megatracksite phenomenon: implications for tetrapod palaeobiology across terrestrial-shallow-marine transitional zones  Lockley, M. G. and Meyer, C. A.

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