3 Result(s)
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Chapter
The Establishment of Continental Ecosystems
The colonization of land was a major evolutionary transition. Following a protracted prelude to the terrestrial invasion during the Ediacaran to Ordovician, the remainder of the Paleozoic experienced an explos...
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The Conceptual and Methodological Tools of Ichnology
In order to be able to turn our attention to the potential of trace fossils to unravel information on evolutionary events, the conceptual and methodological tools of ichnology need to be briefly reviewed. Ichn...
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The Prelude to Continental Invasion
The colonization of land by animals was a major evolutionary transition. Ichnologic evidence suggests that this process may have begun at the end of the Ediacaran interval with incursions into very shallow, ma...
