Taphonomy [electronic resource] : Process and Bias Through Time /
Allison, Peter A.editor.
Bottjer, David J.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Taphonomy; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Taphonomy: Bias and Process Through Time; Chapter 2: Taphonomic Overprints on Phanerozoic Trends in Biodiversity: Lithification and Other Secular Megabiases; Chapter 3: Taphonomic Bias in Shelly Faunas Through Time: Early Aragonitic Dissolution and Its Implications for the Fossil Record; Chapter 4: Comparative Taphonomy and Sedimentology of Small-Scale Mixed Carbonate/Siliciclastic Cycles: Synopsis of Phanerozoic Examples; Chapter 5: Taphonomy of Animal Organic Skeletons Through Time
Chapter 6: Molecular Taphonomy of Plant Organic SkeletonsChapter 7: The Relationship Between Continental Landscape Evolution and the Plant-Fossil Record: Long Term Hydrologic Controls on Preservation; Chapter 8: Hierarchical Control of Terrestrial Vertebrate Taphonomy Over Space and Time: Discussion of Mechanisms and Implicat; Chapter 9: Microtaphofacies: Exploring the Potential for Taphonomic Analysis in Carbonates; Chapter 10: Taphonomy of Reefs Through Time; Chapter 11: Silicification Through Time; Chapter 12: Phosphatization Through the Phanerozoic
Chapter 13: Three-Dimensional Morphological (CLSM) and Chemical (Raman) Imagery of Cellularly Mineralized FossilsChapter 14: Taphonomy in Temporally Unique Settings: An Environmental Traverse in Search of the Earliest Life on Earth; Chapter 15: Evolutionary Trends in Remarkable Fossil Preservation Across the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition and the Impact of Metazoan Mixing; Chapter 16: Mass Extinctions and Changing Taphonomic Processes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Paleontology .
Biodiversity.
Geochemistry.
Sedimentology.
Geobiology.
Paleontology.
Biodiversity.
Geochemistry.
Sedimentology.
Biogeosciences.
Topics in geobiology