Ichnological analysis: The common ground between ichnofacies workers and ichnofabric analysts

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 270, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 332-338

  McIlroy, Duncan ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ichnofabric; Ichnofacies; Trace fossils

Indexed keywords

ICHNOFACIES; ICHNOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TRACE FOSSIL;

EID: 56349136275     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.07.016     Document Type: Article

References (94)

1. Bann K.L., and Fielding C.R. An integrated ichnological and sedimentological comparison of non-deltaic shoreface and subaqueous delta deposits in Permian reservoir units of Australia. In: McIlroy D. (Ed). The Application of Ichnology to Palaeoenvironmental and Stratigraphic Analysis vol. 228 (2004), Special Publication of the Geological Society, London 273-307
2. Bann K.L., Fielding C.R., MacEachern J.A., and Tye S.C. Differentiation of estuarine and offshore marine deposits using integrated ichnology and sedimentology: Permian Pebbley Beach Formation, Sydney Basin, Australia. In: McIlroy D. (Ed). The application of ichnology to palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphic analysis. (2004), Geological Society, London, Special Publication 179-211
3. Bottjer D.J., Droser M.L., and Jablonski D. Bathymetric trends in the history of trace fossils. In: Bottjer D.J. (Ed). New Concepts in the Use of Biogenic Sedimentary Structures for Palaeoenvironmental Interpretation. Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (1987) 57-65
4. Bottjer D.J., Droser M.L., and Jablonski D. Palaeoenvironmental trends in the history of trace fossils. Nature 333 (1988) 252-255
5. Brasier M.D., Cowie J.W., and Taylor M.E. Decision on the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary. Episodes 17 (1994) 3-8
6. Bromley R.G. Trace fossils at omission surfaces. In: Frey R.W. (Ed). The Study of Trace Fossils (1975), Springer-Verlag, New York 399-428
7. Bromley R.G. Trace Fossils: Biology and Taphonomy (1990), Unwin Hyman, London
8. Bromley R.G. Trace Fossils: Biology, Taphonomy and Applications (1996), Chapman and Hall, London 1-361
9. Bromley R.G., and Asgaard U. Triassic freshwater ichnocoenoses from Carsberg Fjord, East Greenland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 28 (1979) 38-80
10. Bromley R.G., and Asgaard U. Ichnofacies: a mixture of taphofacies and biofacies. Lethaia 24 (1991) 153-163
11. Bromley R.G., and Asgaard U. Two bioerosion ichnofacies produced by early and late burial associated with sea-level change. Geologische Rundschau 82 (1993) 276-280
12. Bromley R.G., and Ekdale A.A. Chondrites - a trace fossil indicator of anoxia in Sediments. Science 224 (1984) 872-874
13. Bromley R.G., Pemberton S.G., and Rahmani R.A. A Cretaceous woodground: the Teredolites ichnofacies. Journal of Paleontology 58 (1984) 488-498
14. Buatois L.A., and Mángano M.G. The palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological significance of the Mermia ichnofacies: an archetypal subaqueous non-marine trace fossil assemblage. Ichnos 4 (1995) 151-161
15. Buatois L.A., and Mángano M.G. Animal-substrate interactions in freshwater environments: applications of ichnology in facies and sequence stratigraphic analysis of fluvio-lacustrine successions. In: McIlroy D. (Ed). The Application of Ichnology to Palaeoenvironmental and Stratigraphic Analysis vol. 228 (2004), Special Publication of the Geological Society, London 311-335
16. Byers C.W. Geological significance of marine biogenic sedimentary structures. In: McCall P.L., and Tevesz J.S. (Eds). Animal-Sediment Relations: the Biogenic Alteration of Sediments (1982), Plenum Press, New York 221-256
17. Chamberlain C.K. Recognition of trace fossils in core. SEPM Short Course 5 (1978) 119-166
18. Crimes T.P. Trace fossils and correlation of late Precambrian and early Cambrian strata. Geological Magazine 124 (1987) 97-119
19. Ekdale A.A., Bromley R.G., and Pemberton S.G. Ichnology - the use of trace fossils in sedimentology and stratigraphy. Society of Economic Palaeontologists and Mineralogists Short Course 15 (1984) 1-317
20. Frey R.W., and Pemberton S.G. Trace fossil facies models. In: Walker R.G. (Ed). Facies Models. Geoscience Canada Reprint Series vol. 1 (1984), Geological Association of Canada 189-207
21. Frey R.W., and Pemberton S.G. The Psilonichnus ichnocoenose, and its relationship to adjacent marine and nonmarine ichnocoenoses along the Georgia coast. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 35 (1987) 333-357
22. Frey R.W., and Seilacher A. Uniformity in marine invertebrate ichnology. Lethaia 13 (1980) 183-207
23. Frey R.W., Pemberton S.G., and Fagerstrom J.A. Morphological, ethological, and environmental significance of the ichnogenera Scoyenia and Ancorichnus. Journal of Paleontology 58 (1984) 511-528
24. Frey R.W., Pemberton S.G., and Saunders T.D. Ichnofacies and bathymetry: a passive relationship. Journal of Paleontology 64 (1990) 155-158
25. Fu S., Werner F., and Brossmann J. Computed tomography: application to studying biogenic structures in sediment cores. Palaios 9 (1994) 116-119
26. Fürsich F.T. Trace fossils as environmental indicators in the Corallian of England and Normandy. Lethaia 8 (1975) 151-172
27. Genise J.F., Mángano M.G., Buatois L.A., Laza J.H., and Verde M. Insect trace fossil associations in paleosols: the Coprinisphaera ichnofacies. Palaios 15 (2000) 49-64
28. Gierlowski-Kordesch E. Ichnology of an ephemeral lacustrine/alluvial plain system: Jurassic East Berlin Formation, Hartford Basin, USA. Ichnos 1 (1991) 221-232
29. Gingras M.K., Pemberton S.G., Mendoza C.A., and Henk F. Assessing the anisotropic permeability of Glossifungites surfaces. Petroleum Geoscience 5 (1999) 349-357
30. Gingras M.K., MacMillan B., Balcom B.J., Saunders T., and Pemberton S.G. Using magnetic resonance imaging and petrographic techniques to understand the textural attributes and porosity distribution in Macaronichnus-burrowed sandstone. Journal of Sedimentary Research 72 (2002) 552-558
31. Gingras M.K., MacMillan B., and Balcom B.J. Visualizing the internal physical characteristics of carbonate sediments with magnetic resonance imaging and petrography. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 50 (2002) 363-369
32. Gingras M.K., Pemberton S.G., Muehlenbachs K., and Machel H.G. Conceptual models for burrow-related, selective dolomitization with textural and isotopic evidence from the Tyndall Limestone. Geobiology 2 (2004) 21-30
33. Gingras M.K., Pemberton S.G., MacEachern J.A., and Bann K.L. A conceptual framework for the application of trace fossils. In: MacEachern J.A., Pemberton S.G., Gingras M.K., and Bann K.L. (Eds). Applied Ichnology (2007), SEPM Core Workshop 1-27
34. Gingras M.K., Pemberton S.G., Henk F., MacEachern J.A., Mendoza C., Rostron B., O'Hare R., Spila M., and Konhauser K. Applications of ichnology to fluid and gas production in hydrocarbon reservoirs. In: MacEachern J.A., Pemberton S.G., Gingras M.K., and Bann K.L. (Eds). Applied Ichnology (2007), SEPM Core Workshop 95-131
35. Goldring R. Ichnofacies and facies interpretation. Palaios 8 (1993) 403-405
36. Goldring R. Organisms and the substrate: response and effect. In: Bosence D.W.J., and Allison P.A. (Eds). Marine Palaeoenvironmental Analysis from Fossils vol. 83 (1995), Special Publication of the Geological Society, London 151-180
37. Goldring R. Field Palaeontology. Second Edition (1999), Longman
38. Hairston N.G. Species abundance and community organization. Ecology 40 (1959) 404-416
39. Howard J.D., and Frey R.W. Regional animal-sediment characteristics of Georgia estuaries. Senkenbergiana Maritima 7 (1975) 33-103
40. Howard J.D., and Reineck H.E. Georgia coastal region, Sapelo Island, U.S.A.: sedimentology and biology. IV. Physical and biogenic sedimentary structures of the nearshore shelf. Senckenbergiana Maritima 4 (1972) 81-123
41. Johnson R.G. Spatial distribution of Phoronopsis viridis. Science 129 (1959) 1221
42. Levinton J. Spatial distribution of Nucula proxima Say (Protobranchia): an experimental approach. Biological Bulletin 143 (1972) 175-183
43. Lockley M.G., Rindsberg A.K., and Zeiler R.M. The palaeoenvironmental significance of the nearshore Curvolithus ichnofacies. Palaios 2 (1987) 255-262
44. Lockley M.G., Hunt A.P., and Meyer C.A. Vertebrate tracks and the ichnofacies concept: implications for palaeoecology and palichnostratigraphy. In: Donovan S.K. (Ed). The Palaeobiology of Trace Fossils (1994), Wiley and Sons, New York 221-241
45. MacEachern J.A., and Burton J.A. Firmground Zoophycos in the Lower Cretaceous Viking Formation, Alberta: a distal expression of the Glossifungites ichnofacies. Palaios 15 (2000) 387-398
46. MacEachern J.A., and Burton J.A. Firmground Zoophycos in the Lower Cretaceous Viking Formation, Alberta: a distal expression of the Glossifungites ichnofacies. Palaios 15 (2005) 387-398
47. MacEachern J.A., and Pemberton S.G. Ichnological aspects of incised-valley fill systems from the Viking Formation of the Western Canada sedimentary basin, Alberta, Canada. In: Dalrymple R.W., Boyd R., and Zaitlin B.A. (Eds). Incised Valley Systems: Origin and Sedimentary Sequences. SEPM Special Publication vol. 51 (1994) 129-157
48. MacEachern J.A., Pemberton S.G., Raychaudhuri I., and Vossler S.M. The Glossifungites ichnofacies and discontinuity surfaces; applications to sequence stratigraphy. International Sedimentological Congress 13 (1990) 140
49. MacEachern J.A., Raychaudhuri I., and Pemberton S.G. Stratigraphic applications of the Glossifungites ichnofacies: delineating discontinuities in the rock record. In: Pemberton S.G. (Ed). Applications of Ichnology to Petroleum Exploration: a Core Workshop. SEPM Core Workshop vol. 17 (1992), Society for Sedimentary Geology, Tulsa, Oklahoma 169-198
50. MacEachern J.A., Zaitlin B.A., and Pemberton S.G. A sharp-based sandstone of the Viking Formation, Joffre Field, Alberta, Canada: criteria for recognition of transgressively incised shoreface complexes. Journal of Sedimentary Research 69 (1999) 876-892
51. In: MacEachern J.A., Pemberton S.G., Gingras M.K., and Bann K. (Eds). Applied Ichnology vol. 52 (2007), SEPM Core Workshop
52. MacEachern J.A., Gingras M.K., Bann K., and Pemberton S.G. The ichnofacies paradigm: high-resolution paleoenvironmental interpretation of the rock record. In: MacEachern J.A., Pemberton S.G., Gingras M.K., and Bann K. (Eds). Applied Ichnology (2007), SEPM Core Workshop 27-65
53. MacEachern J.A., Pemberton S.G., Bann K., and Gingras M.K. Departures from the archetypal ichnofacies: effective recognition of environmental stress in the rock record. In: MacEachern J.A., Pemberton S.G., Gingras M.K., and Bann K. (Eds). Applied Ichnology (2007), SEPM Core Workshop 65-95
54. MacEachern J.A., Gingras M.K., Bann K., Pemberton S.G., and Reich L.T. Applications of ichnology to high-resolution genetic stratigraphic paradigms. In: MacEachern J.A., Pemberton S.G., Gingras M.K., and Bann K. (Eds). Applied Ichnology (2007), SEPM Core Workshop 95-131
55. Martin K.D. A re-evaluation of the relationship between trace fossils and dysoxia. In: McIlroy D. (Ed). The Application of Ichnology to Palaeoenvironmental and Stratigraphic Analysis vol. 228 (2004), Special Publication of the Geological Society, London 141-157
56. Martin M.A., and Pollard J.E. The role of trace fossil (ichnofabric) analysis in the development of depositional models for the Upper Jurassic Fulmar Formation of the Kittiwake Field (Quadrant 21 UKCS). In: Hurst A. (Ed). Geology of the Humber Group: Central Graben and Moray Firth, UKCS vol. 114 (1996), Special Publication of the Geological Society, London 163-183
57. In: McIlroy D. (Ed). The Application of Ichnology to Palaeoenvironmental and Stratigraphic Analysis vol. 228 (2004), Special Publication of the Geological Society, London 1-490
58. McIlroy D. Some ichnological concepts, methodologies, applications and frontiers. In: McIlroy D. (Ed). The Application of Ichnology to Palaeoenvironmental and Stratigraphic Analysis vol. 228 (2004), Special Publication of the Geological Society, London 3-29
59. McIlroy D. Ichnology and facies model of a tide-dominated delta: Jurassic upper Ror and Ile Formations of Kristin Field, Halten Terrace, Offshore Mid-Norway. In: McIlroy D. (Ed). The Application of Ichnology to Palaeoenvironmental and Stratigraphic Analysis vol. 228 (2004), Special Publication of the Geological Society, London 237-273
60. McIlroy D. Lateral variability in shallow marine ichnofabrics: implications for the ichnofabric analysis method. Journal of the Geological Society, London 164 (2007) 1-11
61. McIlroy D., Worden R.H., and Needham S.J. Faeces, clay minerals and reservoir potential. Journal of the Geological Society, London 160 (2003) 489-493
62. Narbonne G.M., Myrow P.M., Landing E., and Anderson M.M. A candidate stratotype for the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary, Fortune Head, Burin Peninsula, southeastern Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 24 (1987) 1277-1293
63. Needham S.J., Worden R., and McIlroy D. Animal-sediment interactions: the effect of ingestion and excretion by worms on mineralogy. Biogeosciences 1 (2004) 113-121
64. Needham S.J., Worden R., and McIlroy D. Experimental production of clay rims by macrobiotic sediment ingestion and excretion processes. Journal of Sedimentary Research 75 (2005) 1028-1037
65. Needham S.J., Worden R., and Cuadros J. Sediment ingestion by worms and the production of bioclays: a study of macrobiologically enhanced weathering and early diagenetic processes. Sedimentology 53 (2005) 567-569
66. Oschmann W. Anaerobic-poikiloaerobic-aerobic: a new facies zonation for modern and ancient nereitic redox facies. In: Einsele G., Ricken W., and Seilacher A. (Eds). Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy (1991), Springer Verlag, Berlin 565-571
67. Oschmann W. Distribution, dynamics and palaeoecology of Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) shelf anoxia in Western Europe. In: Tyson T.H., and Pearson (Eds). Modern and Ancient Shelf Anoxia vol. 58 (1991), Special Publication of the Geological Society, London 381-395
68. In: Pemberton S.G. (Ed). Applications of Ichnology to Petroleum Exploration: a Core Workshop. SEPM Core Workshop vol. 17 (1992), Society for Sedimentary Geology, Tulsa, Oklahoma
69. Pemberton S.G., and Frey R.W. Quantitative methods in ichnology; spatial distribution among populations. Lethaia 17 (1984) 33-49
70. Pemberton S.G., and Frey R.W. Quantitative methods in ichnology: spatial distribution among populations. Lethaia 17 (1985) 33-49
71. Pemberton S.G., and Frey R.W. The Glossifungites ichnofacies: modern examples from the Georgia coast, U.S.A. In: Curran H.A. (Ed). Biogenic Structures: Their Use in Interpreting Depositional Environments. Special Publication vol. 35 (1985), Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists 237-259
72. Pemberton S.G., and Gingras M.K. Classification and characterizations of biogenically enhanced permeability. AAPG Bulletin 89 (2005) 1493-1517
73. Pemberton S.G., and Wightman D.M. Ichnological characteristics of brackish water deposits. In: Pemberton S.G. (Ed). Applications of Ichnology to Petroleum Exploration vol. 17 (1992), SEPM Core Workshop 141-169
74. Pemberton S.G., MacEachern J.A., and Frey R.W. Trace fossil facies models: environmental and allostratigraphic significance. In: Walker R.G., and James N.P. (Eds). Facies Models Response to Sea Level Change (1992), Geological Association of Canada 47-72
75. Pemberton G.S., Spila M., Pulham A.J., Saunders T., Robbins D., and Sinclair I.K. Ichnology and sedimentology of shallow to marginal marine systems. Geological Association of Canada Short Course Volume 15 (2001)
76. Pemberton G.S., MacEachern J.A., and Saunders T. Stratigraphic applications of substrate-specific ichnofacies: delineating discontinuities in the rock record. In: McIlroy D. (Ed). The Application of Ichnology to Palaeoenvironmental and Stratigraphic Analysis vol. 228 (2004), Special Publication of the Geological Society, London 29-63
77. Pollard J.E., Goldring R., and Buck S.G. Ichnofabrics containing Ophiomorpha: significance in shallow-water facies interpretations. Journal of the Geological Society, London 150 (1993) 149-164
78. In: Reading H.G. (Ed). Sedimentary Environments and Facies (1978), Blackwell, Oxford
79. Savrda C.E. Ichnology in sequence stratigraphic studies: an example from the Lower Paleocene of Alabama. Palaios 6 (1991) 39-53
80. Savrda C.E. Ichnologic applications in paleogeographic, paleoclimatic and sea-level studies. Palaios 6 (1995) 39-53
81. Savrda C.E., and Bottjer D.J. The exaerobic zone, a new oxygen deficient marine biofacies. Nature 327 (1987) 54-56
82. Savrda C.E., Browning J.V., Krawinklee H., and Hesselbo S.P. Firmground ichnofabrics in deep-water sequence stratigraphy, Tertiary clinoform-toe deposits, New Jersey Slope. Palaios 16 (2001) 294-305
83. Schlirf M. Palaeoecologic significance of Late Jurassic trace fossils from the Boulonnais, N. France. Acta Geologica Polonica 53 (2003) 123-142
84. Seilacher A. Biogenic sedimentary structures. In: Imbrie J., and Newell N. (Eds). Approaches to Paleoecology (1964), Wiley, New York 296-316
85. Seilacher A. Bathymetry of trace fossils. Marine Geology 5 (1967) 413-428
86. Seilacher A. Flysch trace fossils: evaluation of behavioural diversity in the deep-sea. Neues Jarbruch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 4 (1974) 233-245
87. Seilacher A. Use of trace fossil assemblages for recognizing depositional environments. In: Basan P.B. (Ed). Trace Fossil Concepts vol. 5 (1978), SEPM Short Courses 167-181
88. Taylor A.M., and Gawthorpe R.L. Application of sequence stratigraphy and trace fossil analysis to reservoir description: examples from the Jurassic of the North Sea. Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe (1992) 317-335
89. Taylor A.M., and Goldring R. Description and analysis of bioturbation and ichnofabric. Journal of the Geological Society, London 150 (1993) 141-148
90. Taylor A.M., Goldring R., and Gowland S. Analysis and application of ichnofabrics. Earth Science Reviews 60 (2003) 227-259
91. Uchman A. Eocene flysch trace fossils from the Hecho Group of the Pyrenees, northern Spain. Beringeria 15 (2001) 3-41
92. Walker R.G. General introduction: facies, facies sequences and facies models. In: Walker R.G., and James N.P. (Eds). Facies Models Response to Sea Level Change (1984), Geological Association of Canada
93. Wetzel A. Ecologic interpretation of deep-sea trace fossil communities. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 85 (1991) 47-69
94. Wignall P.B. Dysaerobic trace fossils and ichnofabrics in the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay of southern England. Palaios 6 (1991) 264-270