Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay and become fossilized or preserved in the paleontological record. The term taphonomy (from Greek táphos,...

legal aspects. The term taphonomy from palaeontology applies to the fate of all kinds of remains of organisms. Forensic taphonomy is concerned with remains...

behaviors. Taphonomy is the field of study of the process of fossilization and the processes that occur between burial and discovery. The term taphonomy was...

and its various subfields, including forensic archaeology and forensic taphonomy, in a legal setting. A forensic anthropologist can assist in the identification...

Egg taphonomy is the study of the decomposition and fossilization of eggs. The processes of egg taphonomy begin when the egg either hatches or dies. Eggshell...

Macrocollum is a genus of unaysaurid sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period (early Norian) in what is now Brazil. It is one...

Soumyasaurus is a small silesaurid dinosauriform from the Late Triassic (Norian) Cooper Canyon Formation of western Texas. Soumyasaurus is named in honor...

paradigm of public opinion. Since 1980 the taxonomy (relationships), taphonomy (how the animals became embedded and fossilised), biomechanics (how their...

discoidal fossil Aspidella preserved in limestones: Implications for its taphonomy and paleoecology". Geobiology. 15 (4): 572–587. Bibcode:2017Gbio...15...

Cerro Ballena (meaning "Whale Hill") is a fossiliferous locality of the Bahía Inglesa Formation, located in the Atacama Desert along the Pan-American Highway...

lucida drawing. Once images have been acquired, the effects of decay and taphonomy must be accounted for before a correct anatomical reconstruction can be...

Sahelanthropus is an extinct genus of hominid dated to about 7 million years ago during the Late Miocene. The type species, Sahelanthropus tchadensis,...

The science which studies decomposition is generally referred to as taphonomy from the Greek word taphos, meaning tomb. Decomposition begins at the...

12021. ISSN 1365-3091. S2CID 129472649. Tintori, Andrea (1992). "Fish Taphonomy and Triassic Anoxic Basins from the Alps: A Case History". Rivista Italiana...

Shenzhousaurus Dinosaurs portal Shenzhousaurus - fossil found in death pose Taphonomy "Dinosaurs | American Museum of Natural History". Archived from the original...

to which zooarchaeologists pay close attention is taphonomy. Techniques used in the study of taphonomy include researching how items are buried and deposited...

"The 'Tully Monster' is not a vertebrate: characters, convergence and taphonomy in Palaeozoic problematic animals". Palaeontology. 60 (2): 149–157. Bibcode:2017Palgy...

Oviraptor (/ˈoʊvɪræptər/; lit. 'egg thief') is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period. The first remains...

The Lantian Formation is a 150-meter-thick sequence of rocks deposited in Xiuning County, Anhui Province in southern China during a 90-million-year epoch...

Josephoartigasia is an extinct genus of enormous dinomyid rodent from the Early Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of Uruguay. The only living member of Dinomyidae...

Klug, C.; Lehmkuhl, A. (2004). "Soft-tissue attachment structures and taphonomy of the Middle Triassic nautiloid Germanonautilus". Acta Palaeontologica...

Charonosaurus (/kəˌroʊnəˈsɔːrəs/ kə-ROH-nə-SOR-əs; meaning "Charon's lizard") is a genus of dinosaur whose fossils were discovered by Godefroit, Zan &...

The La Huérguina Formation (also known as the Calizas de La Huérguina Formation, La Huérguina Limestone Formation or as the Una Formation) is a geological...

Olgunia is an extinct genus of colonial, sponge-like organisms from the late Ediacaran of the Russia, and is the namesake of the family Olgunidae. It is...

Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CaCO3. It is a common substance found in rocks as the minerals calcite and aragonite...

entitled, The Hunters or the Hunted?: An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy (1981) (named after Washburn's famous article, see above), which corroborated...

paleontologist, science-fiction author and social thinker. He founded taphonomy, the study of fossilization patterns. He was born in the village of Vyritsa...

The Edmontosaurus mummy SMF R 4036 is an exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur fossil in the collection of the Naturmuseum Senckenberg (SM) in Frankfurt...

resistance of spider silk". The Independent. Retrieved 20 February 2015. Taphonomy: A Process Approach. Ronald E. Martin. Illustrated edition. Cambridge...

Dickinsonia is a genus of extinct organism that lived during the late Ediacaran period in what is now Australia, China, Russia, and Ukraine. It had a round...