PENNSYLVANIAN FOOTPRINTS IN THE BLACK WARRIOR BASIN OF ALABAMA

by

RONALD J. BUTA, ANDREW K. RINDSBERG, AND DAVID C. KOPASKA-MERKEL

Alabama Paleontological Society Monograph No. 1

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(Note: These files include color versions of many of the photos in the printed book.)

Publication Date: July 25, 2005

Copyright 2005 by the Alabama Paleontological Society

THE MAIN DOCUMENT

Title pages (4 pages)

Introductory pages (10 pages)

Main body (390 pages)

INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES (in order of table of contents)

Part I: Site Significance and Discovery

Hunt, Lucas, Pyenson: The Significance of the Union Chapel Site: A Lower Pennsylvanian (Westphalian A) Ichnological Kozentrat-Lagerstatt, Alabama, USA

Allen: Discovery of the Union Chapel Mine Site

Buta and Minkin: The Salvaging and Documentation of Trace Fossils from the Union Chapel Mine

Part II: Geology and Paleontology

Minkin: Paleoenvironment of the Cincosaurus Beds, Walker County, Alabama

Pashin: Pottsville Stratigraphy and the Union Chapel Lagerstatte

Martin and Pyenson: Behavioral Significance of Vertebrate Trace Fossils from the Union Chapel Mine Site

Haubold et al.: Interpretation of the Tetrapod Footprints from the Early Pennsylvanian of Alabama

Hunt and Lucas: Tetrapod Ichnofacies and Their Utility in the Paleozoic

Rindsberg and Kopaska-Merkel: Treptichnus and Arenicolites from the Steven C. Minkin Paleozoic Footprint Site (Langsettian, Alabama, USA)

Uchman: Treptichnus-like Traces by Insect Larvae (Diptera: Chironomidae, Tipulidae)

Lucas and Lerner: Lower Pennsylvanian invertebrate ichnofossils from the Union Chapel Mine, Alabama: A Preliminary Assessment

Dilcher, Lott, and Axsmith: Fossil Plants from the Union Chapel Mine, Alabama

Atkinson: Arthropod Body Fossils from the Union Chapel Mine

Rindsberg: Gas-escape structures and their paleoenvironmental significance at the Steven C. Minkin Paleozoic Footprint Site....

Part III. Impact on Amateur and Professional Paleontology

Hooks: The Importance of the Amateur Paleontologist

Rindsberg: Ethics for Collectors and Curators of Fossils

Atkinson, Buta, and Kopaska-Merkel: Saving the Union Chapel Mine: How a Group of Determined Amateurs Teamed Up with Professionals to Save a World-Class Trackway Site in Alabama

Lacefield and Relihan: The Significance of the Union Chapel Mine Project on Alabama Paleontology

Part IV: Photographic Atlas of Union Chapel Mine Fossils

Haubold, Buta, Rindsberg, Kopaska-Merkel: Atlas of Union Chapel Mine Vertebrate Trackways and Swimming Traces

Buta, Kopaska-Merkel, Rindsberg, and Martin: Atlas of Union Chapel Mine Invertebrate Trackways and Other Traces

Dilcher and Lott: Atlas of Union Chapel Mine Fossil Plants

Author biographies

Index