Sentences with phrase «taphonomy of»
We were in Mongolia to investigate the taphonomy of eukaryotic microfossils between Cryogenian ice ages.
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Palaeontologists can decipher how ancient organisms lived and interacted using taphonomy, the study of how fossils form.
Thus, interpreting the Ardipithecus - bearing sediments requires that we deduce the physical and biological conditions under which the fossils accumulated and the degree to which these biases operated at the time of deposition — a practice called «taphonomy.»
Research interests: Paleoanthropology; Plio - Pleistocene hominin evolution; evolution of the genus Homo; paleoecology; taphonomy; Africa.
These include: 1) finding and describing new fossils in Precambrian strata, 2) using analytical tools to examine those fossils in order to determine taxonomic affinity, taphonomy, functional morphology, and paleoecology, 3) using modern analogs to determine phylogenetic relationships and physiology of early eukaryotes and animals, and 4) combining multiple sources of data to create a timeline of biotic and abiotic events in the Precambrian.