Vertebrate Ichnology

Spencer G. Lucas is a stratigrapher and paleontologist who has been Curator of Geology and Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) since 1988. Lucas’s research focuses on vertebrate body and trace fossils. Since 1992, he has been a major contributor to refinement of the Triassic timescale as a Voting Member of the IUGS Subcommission on Triassic Stratigraphy. He has undertaken extensive field research in the American West, Kazakstan, China, Mexico, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Lucas has published 7 books and edited or co-edited more than 70 volumes. He has published more than 1000 scientific articles and is or has been on numerous editorial boards. In 1991, he founded the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin and is its Chief Editor. Adrian P. Hunt is a palaeontologist who has been Adjunct Curator of Paleontology at New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (New Mexico) since 2007 and Executive Director of the Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum (Washington) since 2007. Previously, he was founder/curator of the Mesalands Dinosaur Museum (New Mexico) and Executive Director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. He is particularly interested in vertebrate trace fossils, ranging from coprolites to footprints, and he has published in this subject area for over 35 years, having published more than 700 articles, and written or edited six books. Hendrik Klein is an independent researcher working at Saurierwelt Paläontologisches Museum, Germany. His main research fields are vertebrate paleontology and ichnology. He is a member of the editorial boards of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin and the Ichnos journal. Present research projects and work include Tetrapod ichnology and ichnostratigraphy of the Triassic; ichnology and paleoecology of Paleozoic-Mesozoic strata in Morocco with Technical University, Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany and Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco; and Mesozoic tetrapod ichnology of China with Lida Xing and Martin Lockley.

1. Introduction Section 1. The ichnology of locomotion 2. Tetrapods 3. Fish Section 2. The ichnology of consumption 4. Regurgitalites 5. Consumulites 6. Coprolites 7. Gastroliths Section 3. The ichnology of habitation and reproduction 8. Vertebrate burrows 9. Nests 10. Ichnology of reproduction (e.g., tracks showing mating or display) Section 4. Synthesis (analyzes the vertebrate trace fossil record, its strengths and weakness and application to understanding vertebrate evolutionary history) 11. Megabiases in the fossil record of vertebrate traces 12. Ichnofacies 13. Ichnology and biochronology 14. Ichnology and biogeography 15. Traces and major evolutionary events in vertebrate history 16. Prospectus and issues in vertebrate ichnology