"Presented as a Paleontological Society Short Course at the Geological Society of America, Denver, CO, October 26, 2002."
Includes bibliographical references.
The fossil record of predation : an overview of analytical methods / Michal Kowalewski -- Analyses of coprolites produced by carnivorous vertebrates / Karen Chin -- Archaeological methods for reconstructing human predation on terrestrial vertebrates / Gary Haynes -- The trophic role of marine microorganisms through time / Jere H. Lipps and Stephen J. Culver -- Predators and predation in Paleozoic marine environments / Carlton E. Brett and Sally E. Walker -- Post-Paleozoic patterns in marine predation : was there a Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine predatory revolution? / Sally E. Walker and Carlton E. Brett -- Fossil record of parasitism on marine invertebrates with special emphasis on the platyceratid-crinoid interaction / Tomasz K. Baumiller and Forest J. Gahn -- Paleobiology of predators, parasitoids, and parasites : death and accommodation in the fossil record of continental invertebrates / Conrad C. Labandeira -- The fossil record of predation in dinosaurs / James O. Farlow and Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. -- Evolutionary patterns in the history of Permo-Triassic and Cenozoic synapsid predators / Blaire Van Valkenburgh and Ian Jenkins -- Origins and early evolution of predation / Stefan Bengtson -- Supporting predators : changes in the global ecosystem inferred from changes in predator diversity / Richard K. Bambach -- The fossil record of predator-prey arms races : co-evolution and escalation hypotheses / Gregory P. Dietl and Patricia H. Kelley -- Evolution in the consumer age : predators and the history of life / Geerat J. Vermeij -- The fossil record of predation : methods, patterns and processes