Recent vertebrate carcasses and their paleobiological implications / Johannes Weigelt ; translated by Judith Schaefer ; foreword by Anna K. Behrensmeyer and Catherine Badgley.

By:

Weigelt, Johannes, 1890-1948

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226881683
0226881687

Uniform titles:

Rezente Wirbeltierleichen und ihre paläobiologische Bedeutung. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Recent vertebrate carcasses and their paleobiological implications.DDC classification:

566 22

LOC classification:

QE841

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Contents:

Foreword; Translator's Note; Publisher's Note; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Death and Its Aftermath; Chapter 2: Modes of Death; Chapter 3: Laws Governing Positions of Recent And Fossil Vertebrate Carcasses; Chapter 4: The Carcass Assemblage at Smithers Lake and Its Origin; Chapter 5: Carcass Assemblages and Concentrations in the Geologic Past; Conclusion; Figures and Plates following page 168; References; Index

Summary: The first English translation of Johannes Weigelt's 1927 classic makes available the seminal work in taphonomy, the study of how organisms die, decay, become entombed in sediments, and fossilize over time. Weigelt emphasized the importance of empirical work and made extensive observations of modern carcasses on the Texas Gulf Coast. He applied the results to evidence from the fossil record and demonstrated that an understanding of the postmortem fate of modern animals is crucial to making sound inferences about fossil vertebrate assemblages and their ecological communities. <BR.

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Translation of: Rezente Wirbeltierleichen und ihre paläobiologische Bedeutung.

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The first English translation of Johannes Weigelt's 1927 classic makes available the seminal work in taphonomy, the study of how organisms die, decay, become entombed in sediments, and fossilize over time. Weigelt emphasized the importance of empirical work and made extensive observations of modern carcasses on the Texas Gulf Coast. He applied the results to evidence from the fossil record and demonstrated that an understanding of the postmortem fate of modern animals is crucial to making sound inferences about fossil vertebrate assemblages and their ecological communities. <BR.

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