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A Tale of Two Taphonomies

Sources, 2021
The Kadruka concession represents an area of study grouping together a large number of funerary (as well as habitat) sites located in Upper Nubia in modern day Sudan.
Emma Maines
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Taphonomy of Early Triassic fish fossils of the Vega-Phroso Siltstone Member of the Sulphur Mountain Formation near Wapiti Lake, British Columbia, Canada

Journal of Palaeogeography, 2013
The taphonomy of fishes living in lacustrine environments has been extensively studied in both the laboratory and the fossil record; the taphonomy of marine fishes, however, is poorly known.
Karen Anderson, Adam D. Woods
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Late Miocene Turtles of Grytsiv (western Ukraine) with Rodent Gnaw Marks on the Carapace Surface

Zoodiversity, 2023
The paper describes a series of turtle remains from the Early Late Miocene of Grytsiv (Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine). This fossil assemblage was quite diverse and included representatives of four families (Emydidae, Geoemydidae, Testudinidae, and ...
V. Yanenko, O. Kovalchuk
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The Class Strophomenata (Brachiopoda) in Devonian deposits from the state of Paraná: a case study

Terr@ Plural, 2022
The Strophomenata are extinct and presumably confined to the Paleozoic Rhynchonelliformea brachiopods. The class comprises the orders Strophomenida, Productida, Orthotetida, and Billingsellida.
Gabrieli Goltz, Elvio Pinto Bosetti, Roberto Videira-Santos, Iniwara Kurovski Pereira   +3 more
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Minerals in the gut: scoping a Cambrian digestive system [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2016
The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland contains the first exceptionally preserved mat-ground community of the Cambrian, dominated, in terms of abundance, by trilobites but particularly characterized by iconic arthropods and lobopods, some also ...
K. M. Strang, H. A. Armstrong, D. A. T. Harper   +2 more
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Devonian trilobites from the Paraná and Parecis basins in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil

Terr@ Plural, 2021
Recent fieldwork in the state of Mato Grosso made it possible to find new specimens of trilobites, among them: Metacryphaeus australis, Metacryphaeus sp., and a homalonotide.
Victor Rodrigues Ribeiro , Fábio Augusto Carbonaro , Silane Aparecida Ferreira da Silva Caminha, Ariane Daniele Piccoli , Felipe Nascimento Sousa , Renato Pirani Ghilardi   +5 more
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A new subdisarticulated machaeridian from the Middle Devonian of China: Insights into taphonomy and taxonomy using X-ray microtomography and 3D-analysis [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2017
Machaeridians are an extinct group of armoured annelids, which are mainly known from isolated sclerites present from the Ordovician to the Permian. Based on articulated specimens with preserved soft-tissues and trace fossils, derived machaeridians are ...
Benjamin Gügel, Kenneth De Baets, Iwan Jerjen, Philipp Schuetz, Christian Klug   +4 more
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Taphonomic bias in preservation and representativeness of skeletal samples (a case of Gonur Depe) [PDF]

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2022
The topic of this article is theoretical and practical issues underlying the problems of representativeness of skeletal samples, as well as age and sex biases in preservation of skeletal remains, and the impact of these factors on paleodemographic ...
Kufterin V.V. , Sataev R.M. , Dubova N.A.   +2 more
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Decomposition in an extreme cold environment and associated microbiome—prediction model implications for the postmortem interval estimation

Frontiers in Microbiology
IntroductionThe accurate estimation of postmortem interval (PMI), the time between death and discovery of the body, is crucial in forensic science investigations as it impacts legal outcomes.
Lavinia Iancu, Andrea Bonicelli, Noemi Procopio   +2 more
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THE RISE OF ACTUALISTIC TAPHONOMY IN SOUTH AMERICA

Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina
Over the past four decades, global actualistic taphonomy studies have grown significantly, driven by increased interest in present day patterns and processes of fossilization.
Claudio Germán De Francesco, Fernando Miguel Archuby, Karen Borrazzo, Luis Alberto Borrero, María A. Gutiérrez, Gabriela S. Hassan, Sergio Agustín Martínez, Claudia Inés Montalvo, Matias do Nascimento Ritter   +8 more
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