taphonomyn.
/taˈfɒnəmi/ 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).
<
n.1940- to see far in a millstone
- to see far into a millstone
- to see far through a millstone
- to see fashions
- to see for
- to see for oneself
- to see for what he is
- to see for what it is
- to see for what she is
- to see forthcoming
- to see good
- to see in his etc true colours
- to see in his her true colours
- to see in his true colours
- to see in sight
- to see into
- to see life
- to see little of
- to see masks
- to see much of
- to see nothing of
- to see of
- to see off
- to see off the new ball
- to see on