Taphonomy : process and bias through time /
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2011. |
| Description: | xii, 599 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in geobiology book series ; v. 32 Topics in geobiology ; v. 32. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8265775 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Taphonomy: Bias and Process Through Time
- 2. Taphonomic Overprints on Phanerozoic Trends in Biodiversity: Lithification and Other Secular Megabiases
- 3. Taphonomic Bias in Shelly Faunas Through Time: Early Aragonitic Dissolution and Its Implications for the Fossil Record
- 4. Comparative Taphonomy and Sedimentology of Small-Scale Mixed Carbonate/Siliciclastic Cycles: Synopsis of Phanerozoic Examples
- 5. Taphonomy of Animal Organic Skeletons Through 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. Microtaphofacies: Exploring the Potential for Taphonomic Analysis in Carbonates
- 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: An Environmental Traverse in Search of the Earliest Life on Earth
- 15. Evolutionary Trends in Remarkable Fossil Preservation Across the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition and the Impact of Metazoan Mixing
- 16. Mass Extinctions and Changing Taphonomic Processes: Fidelity of the Guadalupian, Lopingian, and Early Triassic Fossil Records
- Index
