The slides are part of the "Palaeoecology: methods and applications" course taught by Andrea Baucon at the University of Genoa. OVERVIEW The activities are aimed at providing practical and theoretical tools to reconstruct the depositional environment based on the paleontological aspects (fossils, ichnofossils) of sedimentary successions. The teaching program follows a paleoecological transect from continental environments to abyssal plains, passing through deserts and coral reefs. For each depositional environment, the characteristic paleoecological properties are discussed, illustrating how to recognize, describe and interpret them. LEARNING OUTCOMES The student will acquire the ability to reconstruct the depositional environment based on the paleontological aspects (fossils, icnofossils) of a sedimentary succession. SYLLABUS / CONTENT 1. PALEOENVIRONMENTAL TOOLS: the paleoecological investigation; taphonomy applied to environmental reconstruction; ichnofacies; ichnofabric; facies analysis; technical-scientific reports; 2. CONTINENTAL ENVIRONMENTS: paleoecology and paleoenvironments of desert, lake, river, alluvial plain, glacial and volcanoclastic settings; 3. SHALLOW MARINE ENVIRONMENTS: paleoecology and palaeoenvironments of beach, tidal plain, lagoon, strandplain, chenier plain, rocky coast, shelf, and carbonatic settings; 4. TRANSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS: paleoecology and paleoenvironments of estuarine and deltaic settings; 5. DEEP MARINE ENVIRONMENTS: paleoecology and paleoenvironments of slope and abyssal plain settings; Fieldwork activity: paleoecological analysis of fossil-bearing sedimentary successions AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES The student will be able to: • Define the ecological characteristics of a fossil association and their paleoenvironmental implications; • Recognize, classify and interpret the main ichnofossils present in marine, transitional and continental sedimentary successions; • Integrate paleontological and sedimentological information; • Interpret the depositional environment of a sedimentary succession, based on both outcrop and core data; • Compile summary documents such as technical-scientific reports and graphic representations of paleoenvironments