This might be the coolest 🦕 taphonomy paper yet! Hornung et al report on fragmentary probable titanosaur remains (dorsal centrum & manual phalanx) - and other fossils - that weathered & were later fluvially transported & deposited IN A CAVE!
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Very specific thing that I absolutely love. Illustrations of pterosaurs transitioning from decomposition to taphonomy.

[🎨by Rudolf Hima; Jack Wood; Mark Witton; Sergey Krasovskiy]

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Tfw people interpret your fossils without considering taphonomy and anatomy

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New study explores geology and taphonomy of a unique bonebed from southern Utah and its implications for tyrannosaurid gregariousness

Full article https://t.co/6YfNU5iX2Z


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We honor the brilliant work of Anna Katherine “Kay” Behrensmeyer, who revolutionized the field of taphonomy (study of how organisms become fossilized) and paleoecology (study of how organisms interact with each other and the environment across time periods).

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The AL 333 locality at Hadar is a striking assemblage of at least 13 individuals attributed to Australopithecus afarensis, including at least 4 children. How these individuals came to rest together is still not known, taphonomy rules out a flash flood.

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📢NEW CHAPBOOK ALERT📢

Isobel Bess's () TAPHONOMY is now available for preorder.

Proceeds will go to PSL's Philly's Unity & Survival Program and a PDF copy will IMMEDIATELY be emailed upon purchase 🌳

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Today on my s/o found my high school biology project! My 1st taste of -who’dve thought that this would be followed by a dissertation on dismemberment investigation, an on human taphonomy & a in cartilage biology!

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Oryctodromeus - Prairie dog of the Cretaceous! (possibly...but I buy it 100%) A great new paper by et al on the 1st burrowing dino. Oycto taphonomy was my undergrad thesis, & the work LJ has done (& more great work to to come!) is superb. Congrats LJ & team!

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Highlights from the taphonomy
Volgadraco, Timurlegia and Styracocephalus.

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Who ruled the Cretaceous Bauru Group of Brazil: baurusuchids or theropods? The is messing with our understanding of the paleoecology. Via Bandeira et al., 2018: https://t.co/rHqfX8zaUt

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Happy 233rd birthday to William Buckland. Recent and ancient bite marks, from Buckland, 1823.

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