Moderately diverse, but very abundant trace fossils are found from the Late Pleistocene deposits of Jeju Island, Korea. Vertical I-, Y- and U-shaped domichnia of annelids or decapods are, over 2500, extremely abundant, 3D network domichnia of callianassids are, over 200, very abundant, and small sinuous trails of nematode repichnia are, over 50, abundant in number. Horizontal trails attributable to polychaete or worm-like animals are, less than 50, common, but horizontal spreiten burrows, fish traces and crab trackways are, less than 10, rare in occurrence. Of these trace fossils, Taenidium barretti, Undichna britannica and Undichna unisulca represent the first record from the Pleistocene in Asia. Psilonichnus upsilon is the second record in Asia. Crab trackways probably produced by underwater punting gait of sideway walking crabs may represent the first record in the world. In addition, diverse and very abundant footprints of more than 500 hominids, more than 200 birds and more than 1000 mammals are closely associated with these invertebrate trace fossils. Trace fossil assemblage integrated with sedimentary facies is interpreted to have been formed in the marginal marine foreshore to backshore environment corresponding to the Psilonichnus and Skolithos ichnofacies.

Lepidoptera, one of the major herbivore groups on terrestrial ecosystems, have evolved various feeding habits on theirhostplants. Diversification of feeding habits has led to their success in the extant fauna. However, there have been limitedstudies scrutinizing evolutionary patterns of such diversification (Kaila et al., 2011; Regier et al., 2015; Sohn et al., 2016).Leaf-mining is the major form of lepidopteran endophagy, occurring in at least 34 families (Hering, 1951). Leaf miningis considered a primitive trait in Lepidoptera because it characterizes the basal (non-ditrysian) lineages, while the derivedDitrysia and Macrolepidoptera trend strongly toward external feeding (Connor & Taverner, 1997). In contrast, internalfeeding is restricted to relatively derived lineages in other insect orders. This contrasting pattern may be a key for understandingthe evolutionary history of Lepidoptera. We discuss this issue based on two lepidopteran leaf-mine fossils discovered lately.

해남 공룡족흔화석을 포함하고 있는 퇴적암의 보존 방안을 연구하기 위하여 물리적 성질을 조사하였다. 9개의 시료를 선택하여 실내 실험을 통하여 공극률, 공극비, 건조 밀도, 함수비 및 포화도를 계산하였다. 3점꺾임강도는 만능재료시험기를 이용하여 측정하였고, 열팽창률은 팽창계를 사용하여 측정하였다. 우항리 퇴적암은 매우 낮은 공극률, 공극비 및 함수비를 가진다. 세일의 3점꺾임강도는 24.16~42.84, 사암은 16.34~43.52 N/mm2로써 일반적인 퇴적암에 비하여 매우 낮다. 우항리 암석의 공극률이 작음에도 불구하고 강도가 낮은 이유는 미세한 열극이 암석 시료 내 여러 곳에 산재하여 있기 때문으로 생각된다. 열팽창률은 14.7~21.3×10-6 범위인데, 이 값은 알루미나에 비하여 2~2.5배, 활석에 비하여 약 10배 정도 큰 값이다. 사암의 경우 쳐트의 양이 많을수록 공극률, 공극비와 함수비는 증가하며, 건조밀도와 포화도는 작아진다. 쳐트를 함유한 사암은 포함하지 않은 사암에 비하여 공극률과 열팽창률이 월등하게 높아서 강도가 낮다.