taphonomyn.

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).

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.

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.

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.