Vertebrate coprolites / edited by Adrian P. Hunt, Jesper Milan, Spencer G. Lucas and Justin A. Spielmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hunt, Adrian P.

Milàn, Jesper.

Lucas, Spencer G.

Spielmann, Justin A. (Justin Alan)

New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.

Series:

Bulletin (New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science) ; 57.

Bulletin / New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, 1524-4156 ; 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coprolites.

Vertebrates, Fossil.

Physical Description:

iv, 387 p : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque, NM : New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, 2012.

Contents:

Dedication to William Buckland / Christopher J. Duffin

Introduction. Vertebrate coprolite studies : status and prospectus / Adrian P. Hunt ... [et al.]

History of study. The earliest published records of coprolites / Christopher J. Duffin ; William Buckland (1784-1856) and Henry De la Beche (1796-1855) : the early history of coprolites / S. George Pemberton ; Coprolites and characters in Victorian Britain / Christopehr J. Duffin

Actualistic studies. Dirty feet leave dirty trails : notes on the relationship between coprolites and tracks / Martin G. Lockley ; Crocodylian scatology : a look into morphology, internal architecture, inter- and intraspecific variation and prey remains in extant crocodylian feces / Jesper Milan ; Gastroliths in coprolites : a call to search! / Oliver Wings

Geochemistry, analysis and preservation. Early process in the fossilization of terrestrial feces to coprolites, and microstructure preservation / Kurt Hollocher and Thomas C. Hollocher ; Lipid analysis of vertebrate coprolites / Fiona L. Gill and Ian D. Bull ; A coprolite in the MDCT-scanner : internal architecture and bone contents revealed / Jesper Milan, Bo W. Rasmussen and Niels Lynnerup

Museum collections. The bromalite collection at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution), with descriptions of new ichnotaxa and notes on other significant coprolite collections / Adrian P. Hunt, Spencer G. Lucas and Justin A. Spielmann ; New coprolite ichnotaxa from the Buckland Collection at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History / Adrian P. Hunt, Spencer G. Lucas and Justin A. Spielmann ; The vertebrate coprolite collection at the Natural History museum (London) / Adrian P. Hunt, Spencer G. Lucas and Justin A. Spielmann

Classification and terminology. Digestichnia (Vialov, 1972) : an almost forgotten ethnological class for trace fossils / Lothar H. Vallon ; Classification of vertebrate coprolites and related trace fossils / Adrian P. Hunt and Spencer G. Lucas ; Ferdinand Panescore and his classification of coprolites / Jean Le Loeuff ; Descriptive terminology of coprolites and recent feces / Adrian P. Hunt and Spencer G. Lucas

Paleozoic bromalites. Mississippian bromalites from Blue Beach, Nova Scotia, Canada / Chris F. Mansky ... [et al.] ; Bromalites from the Mississippian Bear Gulch Lagerstatte of central Montana, USA / Adrian P. Hunt ... [et al.] ; Bromalites from the Tinajas Lagerstatte (Late Pennsylvanian: Late Missourian), central New Mexico, USA / Adrian P. Hunt ... [et al.] ; A re-evaluation of Late Pennsylvanian bromalites from the Kinney Brick Quarry Lagerstatte, New Mexico, USA / Adrian P. Hunt ... [et al.] ; A new marine coprofauna from the Beeman Formation (Late Pennsylvanian: Late Missourian), Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, USA / Adrian P. Hunt ... [et al.] ; Vertebrate coprolites from the Lower Permian (middle Wolfcampian) Gallina Well locality, Joyita Hills, Socorro County, New Mexico / Amanda K. Cantrell ... [et al.]

Mesozoic bromalites. A preliminary report on coprolites from the Late Triassic part of the Kap Stewart Formation, Jameson Land, East Greenland / Jesper Milan ... [et al.] ; Preliminary report on coprolites from the Late Triassic of Thailand / Chalida Laojumpon ... [et al.] ; Vertebrate coprolites from the Nusplingen lithographic limestone (Upper Jurassic, SW Germany) / G. Schweigert and G. Dietl ; Vertebrate coprolites from the lower Eagle Ford Group and north central Texas and their paleoecological significance / Virginia Friedman ; Tetrapod coprolites from the Cenomanian bone-bed of northeastern Brazil / Paulo Roberto de Fugueiredo Souto and Manuel Alfredo Medeiros ; Coprolites with prey remains and traces from coprophagous organisms from the Lower Cretaceous (late Berriasian) Jydegaard Formation of Bornholm, Denmark / Jesper Milan, Bo W. Rasmussen and Niels Bonde ; Stomach and gastrointestinal tract contents in late Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) teleosts from black shales of Germany and analysis of fish mortality and food chains in the upwelling-influenced pre-North Sea basin of Europe / Cajus G. Diedrich ; Coprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland, Kirtland and Ojo Alamo formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico / Robert M. Sullivan and Steven E. Jasinski ; Coprolites across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, San Juan basin, New Mexico / Thomas L. Suazo ... [et al.]

Tertiary bromalites. Late Eocene shark coprolites from the Yazoo Clay in northeastern Louisiana / Gary L. Stringer and Lorin King ; Middle Eocene shark coprolites from shallow marine and deltaic coasts of the pre-North Sea Basin in central Europe / Cajus G. Diedrich and Horst Felker ; Crocodylian coprolites from the Eocene of the Zaysan Basin, Kazakstan / Spencer G. Lucas ... [et al.] ; Strigilites (fossilized owl pellets) from the Oligocene of Wyoming / Spencer G. Lucas ... [et al.]

Quaternary bromalites. Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) dung deposits of the Colorado Plateau, western North America / Jim I. Mead and Sandra L. Swift ; Vertebrate coprolites and other bromalites in National Park Service areas / Adrian P. Hunt ... [et al.] ; An inventory of packrat (Neotoma spp.) middens in National Park Service areas / Justin S. Tweet, Vincent L. Santucci and Adrian P. Hunt ; Typology of Ice Age spotted hyean Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss, 1823) coprolite aggregate pellets from the European Late Pleistocene and their significance at dens and scavenging sites / Cajus G. Diedrich ; Coprolites and archaeology : the missing links in understanding human health / Vaughn M. Bryant and Karl J. Reinhard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

820028989