Recent progress and focuses of ichnology:Outline of the 14^(th) International Ichnofabric Workshop  

作　　者：Ruo-Ying Fan Yi-Ming Gong 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences

出　　处：《Journal of Palaeogeography》2017年第4期359-369,共11页古地理学报（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 41290260, 41472001]

摘　　要：The 14^（th） International Ichnofabric Workshop was held successfully in Taipei, China from April 29 thto May 2^（nd）. From the oral presentations, posters, intra-and post-workshop field trips, and workshop discussions, a few promising aspects of ichnological study can be outlined：（1） Ichnotaxonomy is, and will be the major endeavour of ichnologists, supplying important behavioural information for palaeontological studies, and also providing reasonable, objective, and convenient taxonomical framework for further sedimentological and palaeoecological studies;（2） Ichnofabric analysis is widely applied to in-depth sedimentological, palaeoclimatical, and petroleum exploration studies, offering a wealth of biological information that cannot be properly obtained from traditional sedimentological and geochemical analyses;（3） Study of trace fossils in the context of evolutionary palaeoecology sheds light on some intriguing issues of the biological responses during certain critical periods in Earth＇s history;（4）Work on combining geomicrobiology and ichnology is under way;（5） Quantitative morphological characterization has become increasingly useful in grasping the finer ingredients of functional morphology.The 14^（th） International Ichnofabric Workshop was held successfully in Taipei, China from April 29 thto May 2^（nd）. From the oral presentations, posters, intra-and post-workshop field trips, and workshop discussions, a few promising aspects of ichnological study can be outlined：（1） Ichnotaxonomy is, and will be the major endeavour of ichnologists, supplying important behavioural information for palaeontological studies, and also providing reasonable, objective, and convenient taxonomical framework for further sedimentological and palaeoecological studies;（2） Ichnofabric analysis is widely applied to in-depth sedimentological, palaeoclimatical, and petroleum exploration studies, offering a wealth of biological information that cannot be properly obtained from traditional sedimentological and geochemical analyses;（3） Study of trace fossils in the context of evolutionary palaeoecology sheds light on some intriguing issues of the biological responses during certain critical periods in Earth＇s history;（4）Work on combining geomicrobiology and ichnology is under way;（5） Quantitative morphological characterization has become increasingly useful in grasping the finer ingredients of functional morphology.

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分 类 号：Q911.28[天文地球—古生物学与地层学]