单词 | taphonomy |
释义 | taphonomyn. Palaeontology. The study of the processes by which animal and plant remains become preserved as fossils. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > palaeobiology oryctology1753 palaeontology1833 oryctozoology1857 palaeontography1857 palaeobiology1893 taphonomy1940 1940 J. A. Efremov in Pan-Amer. Geol. LXXIV. 93 I propose for this part of palaeontology the name of ‘Taphonomy’, the science of the laws of embedding. 1981 Nature 10 Dec. 598/3 Palaeontologists are.. bringing their subject out of the museum through studies of the processes by which the fossil record forms (taphonomy). Derivatives taphoˈnomic adj. ΚΠ 1974 Nature 8 Mar. 100/3 Sessions were devoted to..patterns of diversity and implications of taphonomic evidence for behaviour patterns. 1981 Nature 10 Dec. 598/3 Much of the book concentrates on the principles, methods of study and results of taphonomic studies of (mainly) African vertebrates. taphoˈnomical adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > [adjective] > palaeobiology oryctological1792 fossilological1837 palaeontological1839 palaeontographical1848 palaeontologic1854 oryctozoological1857 palaeobiologic1924 palaeobiological1929 taphonomical1940 1940 J. A. Efremov in Pan-Amer. Geol. LXXIV. 93 Taphonomical research allows us to glance into the depth of ages from another point of view. 1971 Nature 8 Oct. 391/2 There seem to be neither palaeoecological nor taphonomical features of the formation that would preclude Hipparion being represented in the assemblage. taˈphonomist n. a specialist in taphonomy. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > person who studies > [noun] > palaeobiology fossilist1747 fossilogist1776 oryctologist1799 fossilologist1801 palaeontologist1838 palaeobiologist1900 palaeontographer1935 palaeopathologist1939 taphonomist1974 1974 Times 2 Mar. 14/2 Russian scientists have brought together a team of geologists..and a group of taphonomists: the last belong to a speciality created in Russia for studying the way animals and plants are preserved in their burial sites. 1977 Leakey & Lewin Origins i. 12/2 Any scientific meeting on our origins nowadays might be attended by archeologists..[and] taphonomists. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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