Abstract The 14th International Ichnofabric Workshop was held successfully in Taiwan University of China from April 29th to May 2nd. From the oral presentations,posters,intra- and post-workshop field trips,and workshop discussions,a few promising aspects of ichnological study can be outlined: (1)Ichnotaxonomy is,and will be the major endeavour of ichnologists,supplying important behavioural information for palaeontological studies,and also providing reasonable,objective,and convenient taxonomical framework for further sedimentological and palaeoecological exploits;(2)Ichnofabric analysis is widely applied to in-depth sedimentological studies,offering a wealth of biological information that cannot be properly obtained from traditional sedimentological and geochemical analyses;(3)Study of trace fossils in the context of evolutionary palaeoecology sheds light on some intriguing issues in the biological responses during certain critical events in Earth’s history;(4)Work on combining geomicrobiology and ichnology is under way;(5)Particular fossil behaviour such as stalking is first reported,expanding the range of fossil behavioural patterns;(6)Quantitative morphological characterisation and statistic approaches have become increasingly useful in grasping the finer ingredients of functional morphology, and it is urgently needed that quantitative description and analysis of environmental parameters based on ichnofabric analysis be proposed in the near future.
Fund:Financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41290260,41472001)
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Gong Yiming,born in 1958,is a professor and Ph.D. supervisor of China University of Geosciences(Wuhan). He is mainly engaged in researches of ichnology,the Devonian and geobiology. E-mail: ymgong@cug.edu.cn.
About author: About the first author Fan Ruoying,born in 1990,is a Ph.D. candidate of China University of Geosciences(Wuhan),and majors in palaeontology and stratigraphy. She is mainly engaged in researches of ichnology and sedimentology. E-mail: cugfry@163.com.
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Fan Ruoying,Gong Yiming. Focus and frontiers of ichnology in the 21st century: Outline of the 14th International Ichnofabric Workshop[J]. JOPC, 2017, 19(5): 919-926.
Fan Ruoying,Gong Yiming. Focus and frontiers of ichnology in the 21st century: Outline of the 14th International Ichnofabric Workshop[J]. JOPC, 2017, 19(5): 919-926.
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