Taphonomy Paleontology Earth Sciences

Taphonomy is the study of the post-mortem history of organic remains. Taphonomic processes can be constructive (as in those processes that lead to fossilization), or more commonly destructive. Understanding taphonomy is essential to the proper interpretation of fossil deposits.

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• Death is a Sure Bet, Fossilization is a Long Shot - Paper on plant and invertebrate taphonomy by Aaron Spriggs.
  
• Plant Fossils and Their Preservation - Includes a section of conditions required for plant fossil preservation, the various levels of preservation, and types of fossils.
  
• Journal of Taphonomy - The aim of the Journal of Taphonomy is to facilitate the academic spread of information that is basic to the interpretation of past systems of biotic interaction. Provides submission and subscription information.
  
• Taphonomy: New Branch of Paleontology - Article written by Professor Ivan Efremov in 1940 which first introduced the study of taphonomy.
  
• Taphonomy: Learning from the Dead - Description and syllabus of this field course in vertebrate and invertebrate taphonomy.
  
• Shelf and Slope Environmental Taphonomy Initiative - Research project to measure taphonomic rates in a range of continental shelf and slope environments of deposition.
  
• Taphonomy - Information from Wikipedia on the study of decaying organisms over long periods of time. This process involves the transition of organisms from the biosphere to the lithosphere as they become fossilized.
  
• Taphos 2002 - Program of the 2002 International Conference on Taphonomy and Fossilization.
  
• Taphonomy and Preservation - Comprehensive tutorial on taphonomy and preservation from the State University of New York at Cortland.
  
• International Plant Taphonomy Meeting - Informal workshops focusing on recent developments in the science of plant taphonomy. Meeting information and abstracts.
  
• Taphonomy of the Rhynie Chert - University of Aberdeen presentation of the preservation of biota in Rhynie chert.
  
• Shelf and Slope Experimental Taphonomy Initiative - SSETI is an undersea research program which aims to use controlled experiments to measure modern processes of decay, alteration, and burial in order to better understand taphonomic processes.
  
• Taphonomy: The Study of Preservation - Provides an explanation of what preservation means in relation to paleontology and the deductions that can be made from examining fossils.
  
• Taphonomy: Insight into Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Evolution - Abstracts of taphonomy papers presented at the 2002 meeting of the Geological Society of America.
  
  

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