Gabriela is a Professor at the University of Saskatchewan and works on animal-substrate interactions through geologic time. In addition to her research projects in paleontology and geology, she has a strong interest in philosophy and the history of science. She has done extensive international fieldwork. At present she is co-editor of Palaios, in addition to being a member of the editorial board of a number of journals, including Journal of Paleontology, Paleontologia Electronica, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeocology, Ameghiniana, and Revista Brasilera de Paleontologia. Gabriela is a member of the Scientific Board of the UNESCO International Geoscience Program (IGCP), member of the SEPM Board, and Treasurer of the International Ichnological Association. Gabriela is the recipient of the 2018 Association of Women Geoscientists Outstanding Educator Award. She is the author of five books, has edited three special publications, and is the author of approximately 170 scientific papers. Gabriela has supervised over fifteen graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

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BOOKS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Books

-Bromley, R., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Genise, J. & Melchor, R. (Eds.) 2007. Sediment-Organism Interactions: A multifaceted ichnology. SEPM Special Publication 88, 393 p.

-Webby, B.D., Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. (Eds.) 2004. Trace Fossils in evolutionary palaeoecology. Fossils & Strata 51. 153 p.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. (Eds.) 2003. Icnología: hacia una convergencia entre geología y biología. Asociación Argentina de Paleontología Publicación 9. 184 p.

-Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., West, R. & Maples, C.G. 2002. Ichnology of an equatorial tidal flat: The Stull Shale Member at Waverly, eastern Kansas. Bulletin of the Kansas Geological Survey 245. 130 p.

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G. & Aceñolaza, F.G. 2002. Trazas fósiles: Señales de comportamiento en el registro estratigráfico. Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew. 382 p.

Papers published in books and special issues

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 2007. Trace fossils in evolutionary paleoecology. In: Miller, W. III (Ed.), Trace Fossils. Elsevier, p. 391-409.

-Buatois, LA. & Mángano, M.G. 2007. Invertebrate ichnology of continental freshwater environments. In: Miller, W. III (Ed.), Trace Fossils. Elsevier, p. 285-323.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2007. Trazas fosiles. In: Camacho, H. (Ed.), Invertebrados Fosiles.

-Buatois, L.A., Uba, C.E., Mángano, M.G., Hulka, C. & Heubeck, C. 2007. Deep bioturbation in continental environments: Evidence from Miocene fluvial deposits of Bolivia. In: Bromley, R., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Genise, J. & Melchor, R. (Eds.), Sediment-Organism Interactions: A multifaceted ichnology. SEPM Special Publication 88: 123-136.

-Bromley, R., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Genise, J. & Melchor, R. 2007. Ichnology: Present trends and some future directions. In: Bromley, R., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Genise, J. & Melchor, R. (Eds.), Sediment-Organism Interactions: A multifaceted ichnology. SEPM Special Publication 88: 3-6.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2007. La colonización de los fondos marinos en la transición Proterozoico-Cámbrico. In: Benedetto, J.L. (eds.), Los fósiles del Proterozoico Superior y Paleozoico inferior de Argentina. Publicación Especial Ameghiniana 11: 9-12.

-Buatois, L.A., Netto, R.G. & Mángano, M.G. 2007. Ichnology of Permian marginal-marine to shallow-marine coal-bearing successions: Rio Bonito and Palermo Formations, Parana basin, Brazil. In: MacEachern, J., Bann, K.L., Gingras, M.K. & Pemberton, S.G. (eds.), Applied Ichnology. SEPM Short Course Notes 52: 167-177.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 2004. Reconstructing Early Phanerozoic intertidal ecosystems: Ichnology of the Cambrian Campanario Formation in northwest Argentina. In: Webby, B.D., Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. (Eds.), Trace Fossils in evolutionary palaeoecology. Fossils & Strata, 51: 17-38.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2004. Terminal Proterozoic–Early Cambrian ecosystems: Ichnology of the Puncoviscana Formation, Northwest Argentina. In: Webby, B.D., Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. (Eds.), Trace Fossils in evolutionary palaeoecology. Fossils & Strata, 51: 1-16.

-Carmona, N.B., Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2004. The trace fossil record of burrowing decapod crustaceans: evaluating evolutionary radiations and behavioural convergence. In: Webby, B.D., Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. (Eds.), Trace Fossils in evolutionary palaeoecology. Fossils & Strata, 51: 141-153.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 2004. Ichnology of Carboniferous tide-influenced environments and tidal flat variability in the North American Midcontinent. In: McIlroy, D. (Ed.), The application of ichnology to palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphic analysis. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 228: 157-178.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2004. Ichnology of fluvio-lacustrine environments: Animal-substrate interactions in freshwater ecosystems. In: McIlroy, D. (Ed.), The application of ichnology to palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphic analysis. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 228: 311-333.

-Mángano, M.G. & Droser, M. 2004. The ichnologic record of the Ordovician radiation. In: Webby, B.D., Droser, M.L., Paris, F. & Percival, I.G. (Eds.), The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. Columbia University Press, New York. 369–379.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 2003. Rusophycus leifeirikssoni en la Formación Campanario:

Implicancias paleobiológicas, paleoecológicas y paleoambientales. In: Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. (Eds.), Icnología: Hacia una convergencia entre geología y biología. Publicación Especial de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 9: 65–84.

-Buatois, L.A., Bromley, R.G., Mángano, M.G., Bellosi, E. & Carmona, N.B. 2003. Ichnology of shallow marine deposits in the Miocene Chenque Formation of Patagonia: Complex ecologic structure and niche partitioning in Neogene ecosystems. In: Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. (Eds.), Icnología: Hacia una convergencia entre geología y biología. Publicación Especial de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 9: 85-95.

-Mángano, M.G., Astini, R., Buatois, L.A. & Dávila, F. 2003. The Ordovician System in the Famatina Belt: depositional and tectonic evolution. In: Aceñolaza, F.G. (Ed.), Aspects of the Ordovician System in Argentina. Serie de Correlación Geológica 16: 295-312.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 2003. Trace Fossils. In: Benedetto, J.L. (Ed.), Ordovician Fossils of Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología, p. 507-553.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2001. Singularidad y recurrencia en paleontología. Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, Publicación Especial 8: 171-176.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 2001. El Programa de Investigación Seilacheriano: La Icnología desde la perspectiva de Imre Lakatos. Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, Publicación Especial 8: 177-186.

-Byrnes, A.P., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G. & Carr, T.R. 2001. Integration of lithofacies and petrophysics in marine and estuarine Morrow Sandstone, southwest Kansas: a Midcontinent rock catalog example. In Johnson, K.S. (ed.), Pennsylvanian and Permian geology and petroleum in the southern Midcontinent, 1998 symposium: Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 104: 59-64.

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Wu X. & Zhang, G. 2000. Jurassic lake deposits from the Anyao Formation, Central China. In: Gierlowski-Kordesch, E. & Kelts, K. (Eds.), Global Geological Record of Lake Basins. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 46: 189-194.

-Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., Wu X., Sun, J. & Zhang, G. 2000. Triassic lacustrine sedimentation from the Tanzhuang Formation, Jiyuan-Yima Basin, southeastern China. In: Gierlowski-Kordesch, E. & Kelts, K. (Eds.), Global Geological Record of Lake Basins. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology, 46: 133-140.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2000. Reduccionismo y emergentismo en las ciencias de la tierra. Estudios Epistemológicos 2: 77-82. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. San Miguel de Tucumán.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 2000. Importancia de la macroevolución en la nueva filosofía de la biología. Estudios Epistemológicos 2: 65-76. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. San Miguel de Tucumán.

-Aceñolaza, F.G., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Esteban, S.B., Tortello, F. & Aceñolaza, G.F. 1999. Cámbrico y Ordovícico del noroeste argentino. In: Caminos, R. (Ed.), Geología Argentina. Anales del Instituto y Recursos Minerales 29: 169-187.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 1999. Feeding adaptations. In: Singer, R. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Paleontology, Volume 1: 458-465. Fitzroy Deaborn Publishers, Chicago.

-Esteban, S., Tortello, F., Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A. & Aceñolaza, F.G. 1999. Bioestratigrafía del Paleozoico inferior del Sistema del Famatina. In: González Bonorino, G., Omarini, R. & Viramonte, J. (Eds.), Relatorio XIV Congreso Geológico Argentino. Geología del Noroeste Argentino 1: 217-223.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 1999. El Paleozoico superior del Sistema del Famatina. In: González Bonorino, G., Omarini, R. & Viramonte, J. (Eds.), Relatorio XIV Congreso Geológico Argentino. Geología del Noroeste Argentino 1: 237-239.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 1996. Icnología de ambientes continentales: Problemas y perspectivas. Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, Publicación Especial 4:5-30.

-Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A. & Aceñolaza, F.G. 1996. Icnología de ambientes marinos afectados por vulcanismo: La Formación Suri, Ordovícico del extremo norte de la sierra de Narváez, Sistema del Famatina. Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, Publicación Especial 4:69-88.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 1996. Estratigrafía, sedimentología y evolución paleoambiental de la Formación Suri en la subcuenca de Chaschuil, Ordovícico del Sistema del Famatina. In: Aceñolaza, F.G., Miller, H. & Toselli, A. (Eds.). Geologia del Sistema del Famatina. Munchner Geologische Hefte, A19: 51-75.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 1996. Sedimentación lacustre postglacial en la Formación Agua Colorada, Carbonífero Superior del Sistema del Famatina. In: Aceñolaza, F.G., Miller, H. & Toselli, A. (Eds.). Geologia del Sistema del Famatina. Munchner Geologische Hefte, A19:103-124.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 1992. Depósitos de tormenta en una  plataforma volcaniclástica de alto gradiente, Formación Suri, Sistema del Famatina, Argentina. El Paleozoico inferior en Latinoamérica y la Génesis del Gondwana. Serie Correlación Geológica 9: 145-156. San Miguel de Tucumán.

PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

PUBLISHED

-Krapovickas, V., Mángano, M.G., Mancuso, A., Marsicano, C.A. & Volkheimer, W. 2008. Icnofaunas triásicas en abanicos aluviales distales: evidencias de la Formación Cerro Puntudo, Cuenca Cuyana, Argentina. Ameghiniana 45:463-472.

-Carmona, N.B., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G. & Bromley, R.G. 2008. Ichnology of the Lower Miocene Chenque Formation, Patagonia, Argentina: Animal - substrate interactions and the Modern Evolutionary Fauna. Ameghiniana 45: 93-122.

-Such, P., Buatois, L.A. & Mangano, M.G. 2007. Stratigraphy, depositional environments and ichnology of the lower Paleozoic in the Azul Pampa area (Jujuy province, Argentina). Revista de la Asociacion Geológica Argentina 62:331-344.

-Carmona, N.B., Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A. & Ponce, J.J. 2007. Bivalve trace fossils from an early Miocene discontinuity surface: Burrowing behavior and implications for ichnotaxonomy in the firmground-hardground divide. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 255: 329–341.

Netto, R.G., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., and Balistieri, P. 2007. Gyrolithes as a multipurpose burrow: An ethologic approach. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 10: 157-168.

-Buatois, L.A., Netto, R., Mangano, M.G. & Balistieri, P. 2006. Extreme freshwater release during the late Paleozoic Gondwana deglaciation and its impact on coastal ecosystems. Geology 34: 1021-1024.

-Bromley, R.G., Buatois, L.A., Genise, J.F., Labandeira, C.C., Mángano, M.G., Melchor, R.N., Schlirf, M. & Uchman, A. 2007. Comments on the paper “Reconnaissance of Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation ichnofossils, Rocky Mountain Region, USA: paleoenvironmental, stratigraphic, and paleoclimatic significance of terrestrial and freshwater ichnocoenoses” by Stephen T. Hasiotis. Sedimentary Geology 200: 141-150.

-Carmona, N.B., Ponce, J.J. Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 2006. Variabilidad de la icnofacies de Glossifungites en el contacto entre las Formaciones Sarmiento (Eoceno medio - Mioceno temprano) y Chenque (Mioceno temprano) en el Golfo San Jorge, Chubut, Argentina. Ameghiniana 43: 413-425.

-Buatois, L.A., Zeballo, F.J., Albanesi, G.L., Ortega, G., Vaccari, E. & Mángano, M.G. 2006. Depositional Environments and Stratigraphy of the Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician Santa Rosita Formation at the Alfarcito area, Cordillera Oriental, Argentina: Integration of biostratigraphic data within a sequence stratigraphic framework.  Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis 13: 65-95.

-Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A. & Muniz Guinea, F. 2005. Ichnology of the Alfarcito Member (Santa Rosita Formation) of northwest Argentina: Animal-substrate interactions in a lower Paleozoic wave-dominated shallow sea. Ameghiniana 42:641-668.

-Seilacher, A., Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2005. Trace fossils in the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: Behavioral Diversification, Ecological turnover and Environmental Shift. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 227:323-356.

-Mángano, M.G., Carmona, N.B., Buatois, L.A. & Muniz Guinea, F. 2005. A new ichnospecies of Arthrophycus from the Upper Cambrian-lower Tremadocian of northwest Argentina: Implications for the Arthrophycid lineage and potential in ichnostratigraphy. Ichnos 12:179-190

-Buatois, L.A., Gingras, M.K., MacEachern, J., Mángano, M.G., Zonneveld, J.-P, Pemberton, S.G., Netto, R.G. & Martin, A.J. 2005. Colonization of brackish-water systems through time: Evidence from the trace-fossil record. Palaios 20: 321-347.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2005. “The Cambrian System in Northwestern Argentina: stratigraphical and palaeontological framework”. Discussion to G.F. Aceñolaza. Geologica Acta 3:65-72.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 2004. Integración de estratigrafía secuencial, sedimentología e icnología para un análisis cronoestratigráfico del Paleozoico inferior del noroeste argentino. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 59: 273-280.

-Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., Limarino, C.O., Tripaldi, A. & Caselli, A. 2003. El icnogénero Psammichnites Torell, 1870 en la Formación Hoyada Verde, Carbonífero Superior de la cuenca Calingasta-Uspallata. Ameghiniana 40: 601-608.

-Rubinstein, C., Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 2003. Late Cambrian acritarchs from the Santa Rosita Formation: Implications for the recognition of the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary in the Eastern Cordillera of northwest Argentina. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 6: 43-48.

- Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 2003. El Paleozoico inferior de la Sierra del Campo, provincia de Tucumán: Nuevos datos sobre la prolongación austral de la cuenca eopaleozoica del noroeste argentino. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 58: 623-628.
-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2003. Early colonization of the deep sea: Ichnologic evidence of deep-marine benthic ecology from the Early Cambrian of northwest Argentina. Palaios 18: 572-581.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2003. Sedimentary facies and depositional evolution of the Upper Cambrian to Lower Ordovician Santa Rosita Formation in northwest Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 16: 343-363.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2003. Caracterización icnológica y paleoambiental de la localidad tipo de Orchesteropus atavus, Huerta de Huachi, provincia de San Juán, Argentina: Implicancias en el debate sobre los ambientes de sedimentación en el Carbonífero de Precordillera. Ameghiniana 40: 53-70.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2003. La icnofauna de la Formación Puncoviscana en el noroeste argentino: Implicancias en la colonización de fondos oceánicos y reconstrucción de paleoambientes y paleoecosistemas de la transición precámbrica-cámbrica. Ameghiniana 40: 103-117.

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Alissa, A. & Carr, T.R. 2002. Sequence stratigraphic and sedimentologic significance of biogenic structures from a late Paleozoic reservoir, Morrow Sandstone, subsurface of Southwest Kansas, USA. Sedimentary Geology 152:  99-132.

- Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A. & Muñiz-Guinea, F.  2002. Rusophycus moyensis n. isp. en la transición cámbrica-tremadociana del noroeste argentino: implicancias paleoambientales y bioestratigráficas. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 4: 35-44

- Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2002. Trace fossils from Carboniferous floodplain deposits in western Argentina: Implications for ichnofacies models of continental environments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 183: 71-86.

-Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A. & Rindsberg, A.K. 2002. Carboniferous Psammichnites: Systematic Re-Evaluation, Taphonomy and Autecology. Ichnos 9: 1-22.

- Mángano, M.G., Labandeira, C., Kvale, E. & Buatois, L.A. 2001. The insect trace fossil Tonganoxichnus from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Indiana: Paleobiologic and paleoenvironmental implications. Ichnos 8: 165-175.

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G. & Sylvester, Z. 2001. A diverse deep marine ichnofauna from the Eocene Tarcau Sandstone of the Eastern Carpathians, Romania. Ichnos 8: 23-62.

-Buatois, L.A., Netto, R.G. & Mángano, M.G. 2001. Reinterpretación paleoambiental de la Formación Rio Bonito (Pérmico de la Cuenca de Paraná) en el yacimiento de carbón de Iruí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil: Integración de análisis de facies, icnología y estratigrafía secuencial de alta resolución. Geogaceta 29: 26-28.

-Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A. & Moya, M.C. 2001. Trazas fósiles de trilobites de la Formación Mojotoro (Ordovícico inferior-medio de Salta, Argentina): Implicancias paleoecológicas, paleobiológicas y bioestratigráficas. Revista Española de Paleontología 16: 9-28.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 2001. El abandono de una concepcion actualista en el estudio de ecosistemas precámbricos: Otro salto epistemologico en paleobiologia? Episteme 13: 69-78.

-Astini, R.A., Mángano, M.G. & Thomas, W.A. 2000. El icnogénero Cruziana en el Cámbrico Temprano de la Precordillera Argentina: El registro más antiguo de Sudamérica. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 55: 111-120.

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Fregenal-Martinez, M.A. & de Gibert, J.M. 2000. Short-term colonization trace-fossil assemblages in a carbonate lacustrine konservat-lagerstätte (Las Hoyas fossil site, Lower Cretaceous, Cuenca, central Spain). Facies 43: 145-156.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2000. Icnología: Aplicaciones de la icnología en prospección de hidrocarburos y caracterización de reservorios. en la geología sedimentaria y la industria petrolera. Boletín de Informaciones Petroleras 62: 64-85.

-Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., Maples, C.G. & West, R.R. 2000. A new ichnospecies of Nereites from Carboniferous tidal-flat facies of eastern Kansas, USA: Implications for the Nereites-Neonereites debate. Journal of Paleontology 74:149-157.

-Genise, J.F., Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., Laza, J. & Verde, M. 2000. Insect trace fossil associations in paleosols: The Coprinisphaera ichnofacies. Palaios 15:33-48.

-Gibert, J.M. de, Fregenal-Martínez, M.A., Buatois, L.A & Mángano, M.G. 2000. Trace fossils and their palaeoecological significance in Lower Cretaceous lacustrine conservation deposits, El Montsec, Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 156: 89-101.

- Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., West, R.R. & Maples, C.G. 1999. The origin and paleoecologic significance of the trace fossil Asteriacites in the Pennsylvanian of Kansas and Missouri. Lethaia 32: 17-30.

-de Gibert, J.M., Buatois, L.A., Fregenal-Martinez, M.A., Mángano, M.G., Ortega, F., Poyato-Ariza, F.J. & Wenz, S. 1999. The fish trace fossil Undichna from the Cretaceous of Spain: Taphonomic and palaeoenvironmental implications for the ichnogenus. Palaeontology 42: 409-427.

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G. & Carr, T.R. 1999. Sedimentology and ichnology of Paleozoic estuarine and shoreface reservoirs, Morrow Sandstone, Lower Pennsylvanian of Southwest Kansas, USA. Current Research in Earth Sciences, Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin, nr. 243, part 1, http://www.kgs.ukans.edu/Current/1999/buatois1.html

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Mikulas, R. & Maples, C.G. 1998. The ichnogenus Curvolithus revisited. Journal of Paleontology 72: 758-769.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 1998. Trace fossil analysis of lacustrine facies and basins. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 140: 367-382.

-Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., Maples, C.G. & West, R.R. 1998. Contrasting behavioral and feeding strategies recorded by tidal flat bivalve trace fossils from the Upper Carboniferous of eastern Kansas. Palaios 13: 335-351.

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Genise, J.F. & Taylor, T.N. 1998. The ichnologic record of the invertebrate invasion of nonmarine ecosystems: evolutionary trends in ecospace utilization, environmental expansion, and behavioral complexity. Palaios 13: 217-240.

-Zhang, G., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G. & Aceñolaza, F.G. 1998. Sedimentary facies and environmental ichnology of a ?Permian playa-lake complex in western Argentina. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 138: 221-243.

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Maples, C.G. & Lanier, W.P. 1998. Ichnology of an Upper Carboniferous fluvio‑estuarine paleovalley: The Tonganoxie Sandstone, Buildex Quarry, eastern Kansas. Journal of Paleontology 71:152-180.

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Maples, C.G. & Lanier, W.P. 1998. Taxonomic reassessment of the ichnogenus Beaconichnus and additional examples from the Carboniferous of Kansas, U.S.A. Ichnos 5: 287-302.

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Maples, C.G. & Lanier, W.P. 1998. Allostratigraphic and sedimentologic applications of trace fossils to the study of incised estuarine valleys: An example from the Virgilian Tonganoxie sandstone of eastern Kansas. Current Research in Earth Sciences 241: 1-27.

- Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Maples, C.G. & Lanier, W.P. 1997. The paradox of nonmarine ichnofaunas in tidal rhythmites: Integrating sedimentologic and ichnologic data from the Late Carboniferous of eastern Kansas, USA. Palaios 12: 467-481.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 1997. Slope apron deposition in an Ordovician arc-related setting, Chaschuil area, Famatina Basin, Northwest Argentina. Sedimentary Geology 109:155-180.

-Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., Maples, C.G. & Lanier, W.P. 1997. Tonganoxichnus, a new insect trace fossil from the Upper Carboniferous of eastern Kansas, USA. Lethaia 30:113-125.

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G. & Aceñolaza, F.G. 1996. Icnofaunas paleozoicas en sustratos firmes no marinos: Evidencias del Pérmico de la cuenca Paganzo. Ameghiniana, Revista de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 33:265-270.

-Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A. & Aceñolaza, G.F. 1996. Trace fossils and sedimentary facies from an Early Ordovician tide-dominated shelf (Santa Rosita Formation, northwest Argentina): Implications for ichnofacies models of shallow marine successions. Ichnos 5:53-88.

-Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A. & Claps, G. 1996. Grazing trails formed by soldier fly larvae (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) and their paleoenvironmental and paleoecological implications for the fossil record. Ichnos 4:163-167.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 1996. Shallow marine event sedimentation in a volcanic arc-related setting: the Ordovician Suri Formation, Famatina Range, northwest Argentina (Famatina System). Sedimentary Geology 105: 63-90 .

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Wu X. & Zhang G. 1996. Trace fossils from Jurassic lacustrine turbidites of the Anyao Formation (Central China) and their environmental and evolutionary significance. Ichnos 4:287-303.

-Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Wu. X. & Zhang, G. 1995. Vagorichnus, a new ichnogenus for feeding burrow systems and its occurrence as discrete and compound ichnotaxa in Jurassic lacustrine turbidites of Central China. Ichnos 3:265-272.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 1995. Sedimentary dynamics and evolutionary history of a Late Carboniferous Gondwanic lake at Northwestern Argentina. Sedimentology 42:415-436.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, L.A. 1995. Postglacial lacustrine event  sedimentation in an ancient high mountain setting: The Carboniferous Lake Malanzán from western Argentina. Journal of Paleolimnology 12:1-22.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 1995. The paleoenvironmental and paleoecological significance of the lacustrine Mermia ichnofacies: An archetypical subaqueous nonmarine trace fossil assemblage. Ichnos 4:151-161.

-Mángano, M. G. & Buatois, L. A. 1994.  Trazas fósiles e icnofábricas en depósitos carbonáticos cretácicos, Las Cuevas, Alta Cordillera de Mendoza. Ameghiniana, Revista de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 31: 55-66.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 1994. Pistas de peces en el Carbonífero de la cuenca Paganzo: Su significado estratigráfico y paleoambiental. Ameghiniana, Revista de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 31: 33-40.

-Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., Wu X., Sun, J. & Zhang, G. 1994. Sedimentary facies, depositional processes and climatic controls in a Triassic lake, Tanzhuang Formation, western Henan Province, China. Journal of Paleolimnology 11: 41-65.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 1994. Lithofacies and depositional processes from a Carboniferous lake of Gondwana, Sierra de Narváez, northwest Argentina. Sedimentary Geology 93: 25-49.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 1994. Estratigrafía y Ambiente de sedimentación de la Formación Suri en los alrededores del río Chaschuil, Ordovícico del Sistema del Famatina, noroeste argentino. Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Sedimentología 1:143-169.

-Buatois, L. A. & Mángano, M. G. 1993. The ichnotaxonomic status of Plangtichnus and Treptichnus. Ichnos 2:217-224.

-Buatois, L. A. & Mángano, M. G. 1993. Trace fossils from a Carboniferous turbiditic lake: implications for the recognition of additional nonmarine ichnofacies. Ichnos 2:237-258.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 1993. Ecospace utilization, paleoenvironmental trends, and the evolution of early non-marine biotas. Geology 21: 595-598.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 1992. La oxigenación como factor de control en la distribución de asociaciones de trazas fósiles, Formación Kotick Point, Cretácico de Antártida. Ameghiniana, Revista de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 29:69-84.

-Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 1992. Análisis genético de concentraciones fósiles en una secuencia volcaniclástica de plataforma, Formación Suri   (Ordovícico del Sistema del Famatina). Ameghiniana, Revista de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 29: 135-151.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 1992. Abanicos sublacustres, abanicos submarinos o plataformas glacilacustres? Evidencias icnológicas para una interpretación paleoambiental del Carbonífero de la cuenca Paganzo. Ameghiniana, Revista de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 29: 323-335.

-Mángano, M. G. & Buatois, L. A. 1991. Discontinuity surfaces in the Lower Cretaceous of the High Andes (Mendoza, Argentina): Trace fossils and environmental implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 4:215-229.

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-Buatois, L.A., Netto, R., Mangano, M.G. 2008. Ichnology of late Paleozoic post-glacial transgressive deposits in Gondwana: Reconstructing salinity conditions in coastal ecosystems affected by strong meltwater discharge. In: Lopez Gamundi, O. & Buatois, L.A. (Eds.), Late Paleozoic glacial events and postglacial transgressions in Gondwana. Geological Society of America Special Paper.

-Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. Applications of ichnology in lacustrine sequence stratigraphy: Potential and limitations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

-Desjardins, P.R., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G. & Limarino, C.O. Ichnology of the latest Carboniferous – earliest Permian transgression in the Paganzo Basin of western Argentina: The changing ecology of sea-level rise during postglacial times in Gondwana. In: Lopez Gamundi, O. & Buatois, L.A. (Eds.), Late Paleozoic glacial events and postglacial transgressions in Gondwana. Geological Society of America Special Paper.

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* Ichnology of ancient tidal flats and marginal-marine environments: Tidal flats witnessed first-order evolutionary events, representing complex ecosystems where many evolutionary innovations might have taken place. Additionally, an integrated ichnologic and sedimentologic model for tide-influenced shorelines has been developed. This project started several years ago while working on Carboniferous tidal flats in the American Midcontinent and in the last couple of years I have extended its temporal range to include Lower Paleozoic (NW Argentina) and Neogene (Patagonia) temporal windows. I am  also interested in tracking the evolution of organism-sediment interactions in estuaries through geologic history.

* Ichnology of Lower Paleozoic ecosystems and implications in Evolutionary Paleoecology: I have actively taken part in IGCP 410-The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, the final result of which is a book published by Columbia University Press. A chapter on the ichnologic record of the Ordovician radiation co-authored by Mary Droser (University of California) has been published in that book. I am actively working on the ichnology of shallow-marine Cambrian ecosystems of Northwest Argentina, Western Canada and Jordan and its implications for our understanding of early Paleozoic ecosystems. Recently, I started to work on the ichnology of the Burgess Shale. At the macroevolutionary scale this type of study should be based on well-documented detailed studies and solid databases. My work reflects an attempt to bridge the gap between the documentation of local occurrences and the global scale. Additionally, I have explored the potential of ichnology in paleoenvironmental and paleoecological reconstructions of shallow-marine clastic successions through time.

* Continental Ichnofacies in space and time: This line of research was begun during the 1990s to attempt a critical re-evaluation of the continental Scoyenia ichnofacies. As a result, several nonmarine ichnofacies have since been proposed, including the permanently subaqueous Mermia ichnofacies, and more recently the palaeosol ichnofacies (e.g. Coprinisphaera ichnofacies). Trace fossils also record early evidence for the invasion of land and ecospace utilization in terrestrial environments. In the early 1990s I published the first available database documenting the distribution pattern of continental trace fossils in collaboration with Luis Buatois, and we proposed a temporal framework for the colonization of the different continental environments through geologic time. The suggested patterns are based on a database of 70 entries of lacustrine ichnofaunas and 80 of fluvial ichnofaunas.

* Paleobiology and autoecology of trace fossils: This line of research deals with the mode of construction and ethologic interpretation of selected trace fossils. It has implications in paleoecological studies because our understanding of the behavior of extinct groups is mediated in many cases by the study of biogenic structures. It also has implications in ichnotaxonomy because an appropriate understanding of functional morphology is relevant to naming ichnotaxa (i.e. ichnotaxonomic classification is morphoethologic).