This book offers a comprehensive review of the entire field of taphonomy, the science of
fossil preservation. It describes the formation of plant and animal fossils in oceanic …

Shell fragments are important components of many Recent and fossil marine benthic
ecosystems and can provide crucial information on past and present environmental …

Comparative taphonomy, the study of differential fossil preservation, includes aspects of
biostratinomy and early diagenesis that can be related to marine sedimentary environments …

The major taphonomic processes that control insect preservation in carbonate rocks
(limestones, travertines and nodules) are biological: insect size and wingspan, degree of …

Actualistic experiments have quantified rate of anaerobic decay and associated
mineralization around proteinaceous macro-organisms. Carcasses of the polychaete worm …

The trace fossil Thalassinoides, a common constituent of the Zoophycos and Glossifungites
ichnofacies, is abundant in post-Paleozoic rocks. Modern Thalassinoides-like burrows are …

Experiments on decay and early diagenetic mineralization of shrimps in artificial sea water
resulted, for the first time, in extensive mineralization in association with soft-tissues. The …

Burgess‐Shale‐type preservation is defined as a taphonomic pathway involving the
exceptional organic preservation of non‐mineralizing organisms in fully marine siliciclastic …

Criteria for taphonomic processes, including dissolution, breakage, abrasion, size sorting
and shell orientation, were statistically correlated against environmental parameters …

Exceptionally preserved fossils are the product of complex interplays of biological and
geological processes including burial, autolysis and microbial decay, authigenic …