taphonomic in a sentence
Examples
- He applied many taphonomic principles in his field work during a paleontological expedition to the Gobi desert in Mongolia.
- However, the complexity of a bonebed's geologic and taphonomic history can only allow for rough estimates.
- Geologic and taphonomic characteristics indicate a short transport distance for the bone accumulation ( Richmond and Morris, 1999 ).
- Casts of skeletons were also produced, to replace the original bones after taphonomic study, scientific documentation and excavation.
- Preliminary paleoecologic and taphonomic observations on the vertebrate fauna of the Wayan Formation ( Albian-Cenomanian ) of east Idaho.
- Taphonomic change in fish skeletons from Blombos Cave have been interpreted as capture of live fish, clearly an intentional human behavior.
- Most of these invalid species were incorrectly identified as distinct due to taphonomic differences as well as ontogenetic change and sexual dimorphism.
- The antennae are long with 11 taphonomic process ( the transition of a decaying organism over time and how it becomes fossilised ).
- Archaeologists study taphonomic processes in order to determine how plant and animal ( including human ) remains accumulate and differentially preserve within archaeological sites.
- Some " Volborthella " specimens do show taphonomic hints that some form of lightly mineralised sheath may have enclosed its agglutinated shell.