Taphonomy : bias and process through time / Peter A. Allison and David J. Bottjer -- Taphonomic overprints on Phanerozoic trends in biodiversity : lithification and other secular megabiases / Austin J.W. Hendy -- Taphonomic bias in shelly faunas through time : early aragonitic dissolution and its implications for the fossil record / Lesley Cherns, James R. Wheely, and V. Paul Wright -- Comparative taphonomy and sedimentology of small-scale mixed carbonate/siliciclastic cycles : synopsis of Phanerozoic examples / Carlton E. Brett, Peter A. Allison, and Austin J.W. Hendy -- Taphonomy of animal organic skeletons though time / Neal S. Gupta and Derek E.G. Briggs -- Molecular taphonomy of plant organic skeletons / Margaret E. Collinson -- The relationship between continental landscape evolution and the plant-fossil record : long term hydrologic controls on preservation / Robert A. Gastaldo and Timothy M. Demko -- Hierarchical control of terrestrial vertebrate taphonomy over space and time : discussion of mechanisms and implications for vertebrate paleobiology / Christopher R. Noto -- Microtaphopacies : exploring the potential for taphonomic analysis in carbonates / James H. Nebelsick, Davide Bassi, and Michael W. Rasser -- Taphonomy of reefs through time / Rachel Wood -- Silicification through time / Susan H. Butts and Derek E.G. Briggs -- Phosphatization through the Phanerozoic / Stephen Q. Dornbos -- Three-dimensional morphological (CLSM) and chemical (Raman) imagery of cellularly mineralized fossils / J. William Schopf, Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev, Abhishek B. Tripathi, and Andrew D. Czaja -- Taphonomy in temporally unique settings : an environmental traverse in search of the earliest life on earth / Martin D. Brasier, David Wacey, and Nicola McLoughlin -- Evolutionary trends in remarkable fossil preservation across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition and the input of metazoan mixing / Martin D. Brasier, Jonathan B. Antcliffe, and Richard H.T. Callow -- Mass extinctions and changing taphonomic processes : fidelity of the Guadalupian, Lopingian, and early Triassic fossil records / Margaret L. Fraiser, Matthew E. Clapham, and David J. Bottjer.
Summary:
This text includes work from both new and established researchers who are using laboratory, field and data-base techniques to characterise and quantify the temporal and spatial variation in taphonomic bias. It may not provide all the answers but it will at least shed light on the right questions.
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