Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: a user's guide / William Miller, III -- Memorial to Roland Goldring (1928-2005) / John E. Pollard -- The hist orical background of ichnology: The Wadden Sea, cradle of invertebrate ichnology / Gerhard C. Cadâee and Roland Goldring. The ante cedents of invertebrate ichnology in North America : the Canadian and C incinnati schools / S. George Pemberton, James A. MacEachern and Murray K. Gingras. Edward Hitchcock and Roland Bird : two ear ly titans of vertebrate ichnology in North America / S. George Pembe rton, Murray K. Gingras and James A. MacEachern. The ichnof acies paradigm : a fifty-year retrospective / James A. MacEachern .. . [et al.] -- Concepts, methods, theory, and connections to the eart h and biological sciences: Whats in a name? : nomenclature, systematics , ichnotaxonomy / Markus Bertling. Taphonomy of trace fossils / Charles E. Savrda. Use of trace fossils in genetic stratigraphy / James A. MacEachern ... [et al.]. The application of trace f ossils to biostratigraphy / Robert B. MacNaughton. Trace fossils and marine benthic oxygenation / Charles E. Savrda. Climatic cont rol of marine trace fossil distribution / Roland Goldring, Gerhar d C. Cadâee and John E. Pollard. Climatic controls on continental trace fossils / Stephen T Hasiotis, Mary J. Kraus and Timothy M. Demko. The trace-fossil record of vertebrates / Stephen T. Hasiotis ... [et al.]. Zoophycos and the role of type specimens in ichnotaxonomy / Davide Olivero. Ichnofacies, ichnocoenoses, and i chnofabrics of Quaternary shallow-marine to dunal tropical carbonates : a model and implications / H. Allen Curran. Deep-sea ichnology : development of major concepts / Alfred Uchman. Continental ichno logy : fundamental processes and controls on trace fossil distribution / Stephen T. Hasiotis. Invertebrate ichnology of continental fres hwater environments / Luis Alberto Buatois and Marâia Gabriela M âangano. Traces of gastropod predation on molluscan prey in tropical reef environments / Sally E. Walker. Early history of symbiosis in living substrates : trace-fossil evidence from the marine record / Leif Tapanila and A.A. Ekdale. Macroborings and the evolution of marine bioerosion / Mark A. Wilson. Microborings and microbia l endoliths : geological implications / r Ingrid Glaub ... [et al.]. Stromatolites : a 3.5-billion-year ichnologic record / Russell S . Shapiro. Trace fossils in evolutionary paleoecology / Marâia Ga briela Mâangano and Luis Alberto Buatois -- Advances, fresh appro aches, and new directions: Importance and usefulness of trace fossils a nd bioturbation in paleoceanography / Ludvig Lèowemark. Theoretic al and experimental ichnology of mobile foraging / Karen Koy and Roy E. Plotnick. Material constraints on infaunal lifestyles : may t he persistent and strong forces be with you / Peter A. Jumars ... [e t al.]. Complex trace fossils / William Miller, III. A cons tructional model for Zoophycos / Davide Olivero and Christian Gai llard. Arthropod tracemakers of Nereites? : neoichnological observat ions of juvenile limulids and their paleoichnological applications / Anthony J. Martin and Andrew K. Rindsberg. Macaronichnus isp. associated with Piscichnus waitemata in the Miocene of Yonaguni-jima I sland, southwest Japan / Nobuhiro Kotake. Meiobenthic trace fossi ls as keys to the taphonomic history of shallow-marine epicontinental c arbonates / Dirk Knaust. Ichnotaxonomic review of dendriniform bo rings attributed to foraminiferans : Semidendrina igen. nov. / Richa rd G. Bromley ... [et al.]. Ecological and evolutionary controls on the composition of marine and lake ichnofacies / Molly F. Miller and David S. White. Trace fossils in an archaeological context : exa mples from bison skeletons, Texas, U.S.A. / Dixie L. West and Ste phen T. Hasiotis. Ichnofacies of an ancient erg : a climatically inf luenced trace fossil association in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, sout hern Utah, U.S.A. / A.A. Ekdale, Richard G. Bromley and David B. Loope. Endobenthic response through mass-extinction episodes : pr edictive models and observed patterns / Jared R. Morrow and Steph enT. Hasiotis.