- Earliest evidence of behavioural handedness in the Ediacaran motile bilaterian Spriggina floundersi
2026/07/09 by Scott D. Evans, Jenson Webb, Ian V. Hughes +2 · 1 voice
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Benthic zone #Biota #Body plan #Extant taxon #Fauna #Paleoecology #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Protist diversity and phylogeny #Taphonomy #Taxon
- Climate-extreme-driven genesis of a Cretaceous dinosaur Lagerstätte
2026/07/04 by F. Fanti, L. Consorti, M. Muscioni +8 · 1 voice
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Carbonate #Cretaceous #Diagenesis #Geologic record #Geological formations and processes #Monsoon #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Taphonomy #Terrigenous sediment #Varve
- Taphonomic analysis at Liang Bua reveals the behavioral and technological capabilities of Homo floresiensis
2026/07/03 by E. Grace Veatch, Nico Alamsyah, Michael Pante +7 · 1 voice
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Assemblage (archaeology) #Hominidae #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Paleoanthropology #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Repertoire #Taphonomy
- Environmental Context of Triassic-Jurassic Lagerstätten in Newark Supergroup Rift Basins, Eastern North America, with Special Reference to Footprint Assemblages
2026/04/24 by Paul E. Olsen, Nicholas G. McDonald · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Context (archaeology) #Dominance (genetics) #Extinction event #Fossil Insects in Amber #Geological formations and processes #Glacial period #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Rift #Sedimentary rock #Stratigraphy #Supercontinent #Taphonomy
- A chelicera-bearing arthropod reveals the Cambrian origin of chelicerates
2026/04/01 by Rudy Lerosey-Aubril, Javier Ortega-Hernández · 1 voice · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Appendage #Arthropod #Extant taxon #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Protist diversity and phylogeny #Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy #Taphonomy #Taxon #Trilobite
- Ravens anticipate wolf kill sites across broad scales
2026/03/12 by Matthias‐Claudio Loretto, Kristina B. Beck, Douglas W. Smith +6 · 1 voice
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Apex predator #Carrion #Ephemeral key #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Predation #Taphonomy #Ursus #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation #Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Ancient DNA reconstruction of Late Holocene ecosystems within the Carpathian Basin from paleo-meanders and archaeological deposits
2026/02/03 by Giulia Zampirolo, Anthony Ruter, Ivana Živaljević +6 · 1 voice
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Ancient DNA #Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics #Ecosystem #Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies #Exploitation of natural resources #Forensic and Genetic Research #Holocene #Pannonian basin #Period (music) #Sedimentary rock #Structural basin #Subsistence agriculture #Taphonomy
- Early Permian terrestrial apex predator regurgitalite indicates opportunistic feeding behaviour
2026/01/30 by Arnaud REBILLARD, Andréas Jannel, Lorenzo Marchetti +4 · 2 voices · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Apex predator #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Paleoecology #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Paleozoic #Permian #Postcrania #Predation #Predator #Taphonomy #Trophic level
- When the levee breaks: experimentally testing dinosaur and mammal bone transport in unsteady flows
2026/01/12 by Michael Chiappone, Michele Guala, Raymond Rogers +1 · 1 voice
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Fluvial #Fossilization #Geological formations and processes #Mammal #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Sediment transport #Taphonomy #Taxon #Vertebrate #Water transport
- Ordovician horseshoe crab body and trace fossil association preserved in a unique taphonomic setting
2026/01/05 by Russell D.C. Bicknell, Julien Kimmig, Carmela Cuomo +5 · 1 voice
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Horseshoe (symbol) #Horseshoe crab #Living fossil #Marine Biology and Ecology Research #Ordovician #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Paleozoic #Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy #Taphonomy #Trace fossil
- Rediscovery of the associated gigantic vertebrae of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, from the Upper Miocene Gram Formation in Denmark, and comments on its paleobiological significance and the maximum possible size of the species
2026/01/01 by Kenshu Shimada, Mette Elstrup, Henrik Lauridsen +2 · 1 voice
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Bergmann's rule #Crustacean biology and ecology #Fossil Record #Gram #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Late Miocene #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Taphonomy
- A complete morphological description of Dakosaurus maximus (Crocodyliformes: Thalattosuchia) with further insights into their palaeoecology
2026/01/01 by Yanina Herrera, Frederik Spindler, Mario Bronzati · 2 voices
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Ecomorphology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Morphology (biology) #Paleoecology #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Taphonomy
- The ‘Tully Monster’ is not a vertebrate: characters, convergence and taphonomy in Palaeozoic problematic animals
2017/02/20 by Lauren Sallan, Sam Giles, Robert S. Sansom +4 · 2 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Biology #Carboniferous #Cephalopods and Marine Biology #Chordate #Convergent evolution #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Evolutionary biology #Paleontology #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Phylogenetic tree #Taphonomy #Tetrapod (structure) #Vertebrate
- Ediacaran distributions in space and time: testing assemblage concepts of earliest macroscopic body fossils
2016/05/25 by Thomas H. Boag, Simon A. F. Darroch, Simon A.F. Darroch +1 · 15 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Assemblage (archaeology) #Biology #Ecology #Geological and Geophysical Studies #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Holocene #Macrofossil #Paleontology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Taphonomy #Taxon
- From small holes to grand narratives: The impact of taphonomy and sample size on the modernity debate in Australia and New Guinea
2011/04/18 by Michelle C. Langley, Christopher Clarkson, Chris Clarkson +3 · 12 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Anthropology #Archaeological record #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Biology #Demography #Ecology #Epistemology #Geography #Language and cultural evolution #Modernity #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Philosophy #Pleistocene #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Population #Sociocultural evolution #Sociology #Taphonomy
- New dates for the Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure and their implications for the evolution of symbolic behaviour.
2010/09/13 by Thomas Higham, Roger Jacobi, Michèle Julien +9 · 8 citations
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Art #Aurignacian #Biological evolution #Biology #Cave #Chronology #Context (archaeology) #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Geography #Geology #History #Hominidae #Homo sapiens #Middle Paleolithic #Middle Stone Age #Mousterian #Neanderthal #Ornaments #Paleoanthropology #Paleontology #Period (music) #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Radiocarbon dating #Rock shelter #Style (visual arts) #Taphonomy #Upper Paleolithic
- Late Triassic Environmental Evolution in Southwestern Pangea: Plant Taphonomy of the Ischigualasto Formation
2008/12/01 by Carina E. Colombi, Judith Totman Parrish · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Plant Diversity and Evolution #Geological formations and processes #Taphonomy #Geology #Paleontology #Earth science
- The plant macro-remains from the Iceman site (Tisenjoch, Italian–Austrian border, eastern Alps): new results on the glacier mummy’s environment
2008/01/18 by Andreas G. Heiss, Klaus Oeggl · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Biogeosciences #Earth science #Excavation #Geography #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Glacier #Paleoethnobotany #Paleontology #Paleopathology and ancient diseases #Physical geography #Taphonomy #Taxon
- THE FISH AND AMPHIBIAN SWIMMING TRACES UNDICHNA AND LUNICHNIUM, WITH EXAMPLES FROM THE LOWER PERMIAN OF NEW MEXICO, USA
2006/08/30 by Nicholas J. Minter, Simon J. Braddy · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Geological formations and processes #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Tetrapod (structure) #Paleontology #Synonym (taxonomy) #Geology #Taphonomy #Biology #Ecology #Genus
- Eukaryotic organisms in Proterozoic oceans
2006/05/05 by Andrew H. Knoll, Emmanuelle Javaux, David Hewitt +1 · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Protist diversity and phylogeny #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Proterozoic #Taphonomy #Clade #Paleobiology #Geologic record #Paleontology #Biology #Evolutionary biology #myr #Phylum #Evolution of mammals #Phanerozoic #Ecology #Phylogenetics #Cenozoic #Gene
- Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age
2004/12/24 by Francesco d'Errico, Francesco d’Errico, Christopher S. Henshilwood +4 · 39 citations
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Bead #Cave #Composite material #Context (archaeology) #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Geography #Geology #Later Stone Age #Materials science #Middle Stone Age #Paleontology #Perforation #Pleistocene #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Shell (structure) #Taphonomy
- The thermal history of human fossils and the likelihood of successful DNA amplification
2003/09/01 by Colin Smith, Colin I. Smith, Andrew Chamberlain +4 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Ancient DNA #Archaeology #Biology #DNA #Demography #Depurination #Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies #Evolutionary biology #Forensic and Genetic Research #Fossil Record #Genetics #Geography #Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications #Neanderthal #Paleontology #Population #Taphonomy
- Stratigraphic, chronological and behavioural contexts of Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia
2003/06/01 by J. Desmond Clark, Yonas Beyene, Giday WoldeGabriel +12 · 27 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Acheulean #Archaeology #Biological evolution #Biology #Crania #Fluvial #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Geography #Geology #Hippopotamus #Hominidae #Homo erectus #Homo sapiens #Middle Stone Age #Olduvai Gorge #Paleoanthropology #Paleontology #Pleistocene #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Taphonomy
- Taphonomy of turtles in the Middle Eocene Bridger Formation, SW Wyoming
2000/09/01 by Leonard R Brand, Leonard R. Brand, H. Thomas Goodwin +4 · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Fluvial #Geology #Paleontology #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Sediment #Sedimentary depositional environment #Sedimentary rock #Structural basin #Taphonomy #Turtle Biology and Conservation #Volcanic ash #Volcano
- The microfossil record of early land plants
2000/06/29 by Charles H. Wellman, Jane Gray · 13 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Acritarch #Biology #Biostratigraphy #Bryophyte #Devonian #Ecology #Flora (microbiology) #Fossil Record #Geology #Ordovician #Paleontology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Pennsylvanian #Period (music) #Plant Diversity and Evolution #Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions #Spore #Structural basin #Taphonomy
- Permian nonmarine invertebrate trace fossils from southern Patagonia, Argentina: Ichnologic signatures of substrate consolidation and colonization sequences
1997/03/01 by Luís A. Buatois, Luis Alberto Buatois, Guillermo Jalfin +3 · 5 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Biology #Ecological succession #Ecology #Fauna #Fluvial #Geological formations and processes #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Paleontology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Permian #Structural basin #Taphonomy #Trace fossil
- Humans and megafauna in a late Pleistocene environment from Cuddie Springs, north western New South Wales
1993/07/01 by John Dodson, Richard Fullagar, Judith Furby +2 · 6 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Megafauna #Radiocarbon dating #Pleistocene #Archaeology #Geology #Context (archaeology) #Beringia #Taphonomy #Paleontology #Geography
- A new exceptionally preserved biota from the Lower Silurian of Wisconsin, U. S. A
1985/10/17 by Donald G. Mikulic, Derek E. G. Briggs, Joanne Kluessendorf · 10 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Annelid #Biology #Biota #Bryozoa #Conodont #Devonian #Ecology #Fauna #Geology #Invertebrate #Marine Biology and Ecology Research #Marine and environmental studies #Paleontology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Taphonomy #Taxon #Taxonomy (biology)
- Taphonomic and ecologic information from bone weathering
1978/01/01 by Anna K. Behrensmeyer · 132 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Assemblage (archaeology) #Biology #Cartography #Drainage basin #Earth science #Ecology #Ecosystem #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Geochemistry #Geography #Geology #Physical geography #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Taphonomy #Weathering #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation