Barry Webby and Luis Buatois are the authors of Trace Fossils in Evolutionary Palaeocology: Proceedings of Session 18 (Trace Fossils) of the First International Palaeontological Congress, Sydney, Australia, July 2002, published by Wiley.

• Preface iii Synopses ivLuis A. Buatois & M. Gabriela MánganoTerminal Proterozoic-Early Cambrian ecosystems: ichnology of the Puncoviscana Formation, northwest Argentina 1M. Gabriela Mángano & Luis A. Buatois Reconstructing Early Phanerozoic intertidal ecosystems: ichnology of the Puncoviscana Formation, northwest Argentina 17Alfred UchmanDeep-sea trace fossils controlled by palaeo-oxygenation and deposition: an example from the Lower Cretaceous dark flysch deposits of the Silesian Unit, Carpathians, Poland 39Yoshitaka Kakuwa Trace fossils from the Triassic-Jurassic deep water, oceanic radiolarian chert successions of Japan 58Stephen M. Hubbard, Murray K. Gingras & S. George PembertonPalaeoenvironmental implications of trace fossils in estuary deposits of the Cretaceous Bluesky Formation, Cadotte region, Alberta, Canada 68Murray R. Gregory, Anthony J. Martin & Kathleen A. CampbellCompound trace fossils formed by plant and animal interactions: Quaternary of northern New Zealand and Sapelo Island, Georgia (USA) 88Karen Adami-Rodrigues, Roberto Iannuzzi & Irajá Damiani PintoPermian plant insect interactions from a Gondwana flora of southern Brazil 106Ingrid Glaub & Klaus Vogel The stratigraphic record of microborings 126Simon J. Braddy Ichnological evidence for the arthropod invasion of land 136Noelia B. Carmona, Luis A. Buatois & M Gabriela Mángano The trace fossil record of burrowing decapod crustaceans: evaluating evolutionary radiations and behavioural convergence 141