Fossilisation & Taphonomy

A topic within Palaeontology, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Biology.

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Paper1978

Taphonomic and Ecologic Information from Bone Weathering

Anna K. Behrensmeyer

Defines six sequential stages of bone weathering that let a fossil assemblage's surface condition be read as a measure of how long it sat exposed before burial.

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Paper1940

Taphonomy: New Branch of Paleontology

I. A. Efremov

Coins taphonomy as the study of the transition of organic remains from the biosphere into the lithosphere, arguing fossilisation is itself a process worth modelling rather than a gap to see past.

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Taphonomic and Ecologic Information from Bone Weathering

Taphonomy: New Branch of Paleontology

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