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Taphonomy

Taphonomic bias is a pervasive feature of the fossil record. A pressing concern, however, is the extent to which taphonomic processes have varied through the ages. It is one thing to work with a biased data set and quite another to work with a bias that has changed with time. This book includes work from both new and established researchers who are using laboratory, field and data-base techniques to characterise and quantify the temporal and spatial variation in taphonomic bias.

Contents

1. Taphonomy: bias and process through time
2. Taphonomic overprints on biodiversity: a database approach to the quantification of Phanerozoic trends
3. Taphonomy of shelly taxa through time: were aragonitic infauna selectively dissolved?
4. Taphonomy of shelly taxa through time: shell durability in mixed carbonate/clastic sequences
5. Taphonomy of animal organic skeletons though time
6. Molecular taphonomy of plant organic skeletons
7. The relationship between continental landscape evolution and the plant-fossil record: Long term hydrologic controls on preservation
8. Hierarchical control of terrestrial vertebrate taphonomy over space and time: Discussion of mechanisms and implications for vertebrate paleobiology
9. Taphonomy of carbonate microfacies through time
10. Taphonomy of reefs through time
11. Silicification through time
12. Phosphatization through the Phanerozoic
13. Three-dimensional morphological (CLSM) and chemical (Raman) imagery of cellularly mineralized fossils
14. Taphonomy in temporally unique settings: Precambrian Lagerstätte - out of this world?
15. Taphonomy in temporally unique settings: the Ediacaran interval
16. Mass extinctions and changing taphonomic processes

Specifications

Pm Supplier	Springer Verlag
Pm Publisher	Springer Nature
Pm Isbn 10	9048186420
Pm Isbn 13	9789048186426
Pm Publication Date	2010-11-04
Pm Width	155
Pm Author	Allison, Peter A, Bottjer, David J
Pm Height	37
Pm Longness	235

Author: Allison, Peter A, Bottjer, David J
Page Count: 599