Paleontological Society Trace Fossil Short Course

古生物学会短期课程的主要目的是提供选定古生物主题的最新“最新进展”摘要，特别是供在大学一级教授古生物主题的教师使用和传播。此外，这些短期课程为所有古生物学家提供了及时的总结，这些领域是他们的主要兴趣领域的外围。在这一总体目的范围内，这一简短的课程将侧重于到目前为止在很大程度上被忽视的痕迹化石的一个方面，即痕迹的生物学意义和意义。受邀参加这一短期课程的个人以其对遗迹化石的沉积学研究而闻名，他们也非常有能力处理生物成分，这一点在邀请和随后与他们进行的讨论中得到了明确的传达。他们都强烈支持我们的方法，并将强调他们的主题的生物学方面的已知(见所附课程大纲)。我们对遗迹化石短期课程的方法将与过去许多短期课程中使用的格式有所不同。除了讲座和简短的课程笔记外，我们还将在辛辛那提地区进行实地考察，以演示将遗迹化石信息应用于古岩石古生态解释的方法。此外，我们还安排了马克·A·威尔逊(位于俄亥俄州伍斯特的伍斯特学院)教授一门为期一天的海洋硬质底物古生物学课程。

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.