Paleontological Society Trace Fossil Short Course

古生物学会短期课程的主要目标是提供选定的古生物学主题的“最新技术水平”的最新摘要，特别是供大学教授古生物学主题的人使用和传播。此外，这些短期课程为所有古生物学家提供了及时的总结，这些总结是他们感兴趣的主要领域的外围领域。在这一总体目标下，这门短期课程将集中在迄今为止被忽视的遗迹化石方面，即遗迹的生物学意义和意义。应邀参加这一短期课程的个人以他们对遗迹化石的沉积学研究而闻名，他们也非常有能力解决生物成分，这一点在我们与他们的邀请和随后的讨论中得到了明确的传达。他们都非常赞同我们的方法，并将强调他们的主题的生物学方面的知识（见随附的课程大纲）。我们对遗迹化石短期课程的方法将与过去许多短期课程所使用的形式有所不同。除了讲座和短期课程笔记，我们将在辛辛那提地区进行实地考察，以展示应用微量化石信息对古代岩石进行古生态学解释的方法。此外，我们还安排了马克A。威尔逊（学院的伍斯特，伍斯特，俄亥俄州）进行为期一天的课程，在古生物学的海洋硬基板。

The main objective of Paleontological Society Short Courses is to provide up-to-date summaries of the "state of the art" of selected paleontological topics especially for the use and dissemination by those teaching paleontological topics at the university level. Additional, these short courses provide timely summaries for all paleontologists in areas that are peripheral to their main areas of interest. Within this overall purpose, this short course will focus on an, until now, largely overlooked aspects of trace fossils, namely the biological significance and meaning of traces. Individuals invited to contribute to this short course are well known for their sedimentological studies of trace fossils hey are also extremely competent to address the biological components and this has been clearly conveyed in the invitations and subsequent discussions we have had with them. They have all strongly endorsed our approach and will emphasize what is known about the biological aspects of their topic (see enclosed course outline). Our approach to the trace fossil short course will diverge somewhat from the format used in so many of the past short courses. In addition to the talks and short course notes, we will conduct a field trip in the Cincinnati area in order to demonstrate methods of applying trace fossil information to paleoecological interpretations of ancient rocks. In addition, we have arranged for Mark A. Wilson (College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio) to conduct a one-day course in paleobiology of marine hard substrates.