Taphonomy : process and bias through time
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Taphonomy : process and bias through time
（Topics in geobiology, v. 32）
Springer, c2011
2nd ed
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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. It may not provide all the answers but it will at least shed light on the right questions.
Table of Contents
1. Taphonomy: bias and process through time
Peter A. Allison & David J. Bottjer
2. Taphonomic overprints on biodiversity: a database approach to the quantification of Phanerozoic trends
Austin Hendy & Carl Brett
3. Taphonomy of shelly taxa through time: were aragonitic infauna selectively dissolved?
V.Paul Wright & Lesley Cherns
4. Taphonomy of shelly taxa through time: shell durability in mixed carbonate/clastic sequences
Carl E. Brett, Austin Hendy, Peter A. Allison
5. Taphonomy of animal organic skeletons though time
Neal Gupta & D.E.G.Briggs
6. Molecular taphonomy of plant organic skeletons
Margaret E. Collinson
7. The relationship between continental landscape evolution and the plant-fossil record: Long term hydrologic controls on preservation
Robert A. Gastaldo & Timothy M. Demko
8. Hierarchical control of terrestrial vertebrate taphonomy over space and time: Discussion of mechanisms and implications for vertebrate paleobiology
Christopher Noto
9. Taphonomy of carbonate microfacies through time
James Nebelsick, Michael Rasser, & Davide Bassi
10. Taphonomy of reefs through time
Rachel Wood
11. Silicification through time
Susan Butts and D.E.G. Briggs
12. Phosphatization through the Phanerozoic
Steve Dornbos
13. Three-dimensional morphological (CLSM) and chemical (Raman) imagery of cellularly mineralized fossils
J. William Schopf, Abhishek B. Tripathi, & Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev
14. Taphonomy in temporally unique settings: Precambrian Lagerstatte - out of this world?
Nicola McLoughlin, David Wacey, & Martin Brasier
15. Taphonomy in temporally unique settings: the Ediacaran interval
Jonathan Antcliffe, Richard Callow, & Martin Brasier
16. Mass extinctions and changing taphonomic processes
Margaret L. Fraiser, Matthew Clapham, & David J, Bottjer
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