Taphonomy and paleobiology

By A. Behrensmeyer, S. Kidwell, R. Gastaldo. Paleobiology, 2000

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Subfields: Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology

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Response Of Late Carboniferous And Early Permian Plant Communities To Climate Change (2001, background): “…to the formation and preservation of the fossil record that introduce large, systematic biases) in the terrestrial record (Gastaldo et al 1995, Behrensmeyer et al 2000), namely that the biota of uplands or extrabasinal areas (Pfefferkorn 1980) was rarely preserved in the older fossil record.”
Paleoecology of the large carnivore guild from the late Pleistocene of Argentina (2006, background): “On the other hand, these fossils were collected without taphonomic control, thus is not possible to recognize the ex− istence of preservation bias in this fossil assemblage (e.g., Behrensmeyer and Hook 1992; Aslan and Behrensmeyer 1996; Behrensmeyer et al. 2000).”
Quantitative Fidelity of Brachiopod-Mollusk Assemblages from Modern Subtidal Environments of San Juan Islands, USA (2003, background): “The fidelity of paleontological data – the extent to which fossils reflect their source biota – is the key measure of the quality of the fossil record with broad relevance to all who use fossils in their research (Behrensmeyer et al., 2000; Kidwell, 2001a; and references therein).”
Late Jurassic Climates, Vegetation, and Dinosaur Distributions (2004, background): “…climates result in longer residence times on the surface for vertebrate remains, tending to increase time averaging and concentration of remains, whereas hard parts (e.g., bone) degrade more quickly in humid climates as a result of biotic as well as abiotic processes (Behrensmeyer et al. 2000).”
Long-Term Stasis in Ecological Assemblages: Evidence from the Fossil Record* (2004, methodology): “This method can be advantageous (Kidwell 2002, Behrensmeyer et al. 2000), but significantly time-averaged paleocommunity data cannot be regarded as strictly comparable to a large proportion of census data for modern ecosystems.”
Evolution of South American Mammalian Predators During the Cenozoic: Paleobiogeographic and Paleoenvironmental Contingencies (2018, background): “2011.08.018 Biknevicius AR, Van Valkenburgh B (1996) Design for killing: craniodental adaptations of predators.”
Dark and disturbed: a new image of early angiosperm ecology (2004, background): “Many modern basal angiosperms grow on erosional substrates that are unlikely to be preserved in the sedimentological record (Behrensmeyer et al. 2000).”
DIVERSITY ESTIMATES, BIASES, AND HISTORIOGRAPHIC EFFECTS: RESOLVING CETACEAN DIVERSITY IN THE TERTIARY (2007, background): “Taphonomic biases can greatly affect the distribution of fossils and could potentially alter our perceptions of generic richness (Behrensmeyer et al. 2000).”
Modeling Species and Community Responses to Past, Present, and Future Episodes of Climatic and Ecological Change (2015, positive): “Furthermore, differential preservation or degradation of organisms may dictate which species are present in the fossil record (Behrensmeyer et al. 2000), influencing, for example, estimates of past alpha diversity.”
Implications of Time-Averaged Death Assemblages for Ecology and Conservation Biology (2013, background): “…overlooked or discarded during biological surveys, the DAs of metazoans and higher plants have been the focus of intense paleontological analysis since the 1970s as possible analogs of deeply buried fossil assemblages (see reviews by Kidwell & Bosence 1991, Behrensmeyer et al. 2000, Kidwell 2013).”
Micro- and macroevolution: scale and hierarchy in evolutionary biology and paleobiology (2000, background): “…along environmental gradients or among disjunct regions: the temporal acuity often achieved by closely spaced samples in a single section declines significantly when correlating among sections (see Behrensmeyer and Hook 1992 and Behrensmeyer et al. 2000 [this volume] on analytical time-averaging).”