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WEBBY, B. D., MANGANO, M. G. & BUATOIS, L. A. (eds) 2004. Trace Fossils in Evolutionary Palaeoecology. Proceedings of Session 18 (Trace Fossils) of the First International Palaeontological Congress Sydney, Australia, July 2002.

Fossils and Strata no. 51. v + 153 pp. Oslo: Taylor & Francis. Price US $50.00 (paperback). ISSN 0300-9491.

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The study of trace fossils, known as ichnology, is a sub-discipline of palaeontology and concerns organism–substrate interactions of all kinds. Ichnology has been somewhat of a late starter, but has in recent years come into its own as an important branch of both palaeontology and sedimentology.

In recent years there have been a number of important books, short course notes, and compilations of papers that encompass: palaeobiology (Donovan, 1994; Bromley, 1996); applied ichnology (Pemberton et al. 2001) and stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental analysis (McIlroy, 2004). When . . . [Full Text of this Article]