palaeobiology
/ˌpalɪəʊbʌɪˈɒlədʒi
/ /ˌpeɪlɪəʊbʌɪˈɒlədʒi/(US paleobiology)
noun [mass noun]
The biology of fossil animals and plants.Yet the majority of the book emphasizes dinosaur osteology, systematics, and the fossil record; paleobiology takes a back seat to this important foundation....
- Perhaps nowhere else in the literature is the integration between field stratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleobiology better illustrated than in this research.
- Studies of the preserved dung and animal remains are beginning to provide insight into large mammal paleobiology and community development during the Holocene.
Derivatives
palaeobiological
- Future exploration and quantification of the appendicular skeleton is necessary to complete the paleobiological and paleoecological picture of these giant herbivores.
- The next four chapters all focus on paleobiological patterns in the Cretaceous western interior.
- Both traditional morphometric methods and thin-plate splines revealed paleobiological trends among the humeri and femora of Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, and Camarasaurus.
palaeobiologist
- In order to do this, paleobiologists must have an excellent fossil record of a lineage and an independent source of environmental data in the same region.
- Some paleobiologists believe the answer lies in the Ediacaran fossil remains dating back before the Cambrian, in the Ediacaran Period (565-545 million years ago).
- He has continued this work as a member of our ecumenically diverse team of ecologists, geneticists and paleobiologists supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
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