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Ichnias, classifying trace fossil behaviours
This edition poses the question "Do we really need ethological classifications?" and "do they distract ichnologists from thinking and observing carefully".
A little bit about me before I start blogging
I did my B.Sc. at Manchester University. As part of that I did a final year specialist course in ichnology (the scientific study of fossil tracks trails and burrows) under the tuition of John Pollard. Manchester University has a wonderful collection of John Pollard’s trace fossils, which now reside in the Manchester Museum just across the road....