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Muckraking and Mudslinging: The Joys of Deposit-Feeding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

A. A. Ekdale
A. A. Ekdale*
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Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
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Trace fossils, as everyone knows by now, provide us with direct information about fossil behavior, and they offer us a wide variety of mysteries to solve in the area of paleoethology (literally, “the study of ancient behavior”). Chief among these mysteries are “what?”, “who?”, “why?” and “where?”. What we especially want to know is what a given trace fossil looks like in three dimensions, what type of organism(s) created it, for what reason(s) they made it, and under what type of environmental conditions the trace was made.

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Short Courses in Paleontology , Volume 5: Trace Fossils , 1992 , pp. 145 - 171
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Copyright © 1992 Paleontological Society 

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