A New Trace-Fossil Assemblage from the Lower Triassic of Western Australia
The catastrophic event occurring at the end of the Palaeozoic Era destroyed a vast majority of animal species, both terrestrially and in the oceans (Erwin, 2006). The causes of this decimation however have long remained enigmatic. Likewise, the much delayed recovery in Triassic remained disputed in terms of tempo and mechanism (Benton, 2003). There is growing evidence that paleoecologic approaches are powerful in studying biotic mass extinctions and their subsequent recovery (Chen et al., 2010; Twitchett, 2006, 1999; McGhee et al., 2004; Droser et al., 2000, 1997; Schubert and Bottjer, 1995). In particular, trace fossil assemblages are crucial to revealing the timing and pattern of ecologic recovery after the greatest death of earth life (Fraiser and Botttjer, 2009; Pruss and Bottjer, 2004; Twitchett and Barras, 2004;Twitchett, 1999; Twitchett and Wignall, 1996).
Cynthja Bolton Z Q Chen Margaret L Fraiser
School of Earth & Environment, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Pe Department of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
国际会议
The International Conference of Geobiology(地球生物学国际研讨会)
武汉
英文
115-117
2010-06-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）