Taphonomy | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 04/10/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taphonomy


00:00:28 1 Description
00:03:04 2 Research areas
00:04:35 2.1 Paleontology
00:05:49 2.2 Astrobiology
00:06:57 2.3 Forensic science
00:08:35 2.4 Environmental archaeology
00:10:26 3 Taphonomic biases in the fossil record
00:11:11 3.1 Physical attributes of the organism itself
00:12:25 3.2 Characteristics of the habitat
00:13:14 3.3 Mixing of fossils from different places
00:14:33 3.4 Temporal resolution
00:15:51 3.5 Gaps in time series
00:17:10 3.6 Consistency in preservation over geologic time
00:17:39 3.7 Human biases
00:18:54 4 Preservation of biopolymers
00:20:20 5 Disintegration
00:21:01 6 Significance



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Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay and become fossilized. The term taphonomy (from the Greek taphos, τάφος meaning "burial", and nomos, νόμος meaning "law") was introduced to paleontology in 1949 by Soviet scientist Ivan Efremov to describe the study of the transition of remains, parts, or products of organisms from the biosphere to the lithosphere.