The ichnology of shallow-marine and transitional environments

Abstract

The ichnology between the marine and non-marine environments is a key field of work concerning the understanding of the variation of environmental parameters from inland to the offshore transition. In order to understand the geological and palaeobiological processes, this special issue attempts to discuss records in shallow marine to transitional environments through the Phanerozoic, including topics such as ichnotaxonomy, ichnofacies analysis, ichnofabric analysis both for records from shallow marine and transitional environments, and neoichnological aspects. The volume includes fourteen papers in total, namely: one contribution is about aspects of neoichnology in rock iguana in coastal settings, nine papers treat various shallow marine paleoenvironments topics, while four contributions address issues about dinosaur tracks in transitional environments.