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Fossilization Processes

**Fossilization Processes** is the suite of post-mortem physical, chemical, and biological taphonomic mechanisms that transform the remains, traces, or products of organisms from their original biological state into stable, long-lasting materials preserved in the geological record.

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Taphonomic Processes

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Wonderful life: the Burgess Shale and the nature of history

Choice Reviews Online · 1990 · 3.1K citations

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Taphonomic and ecologic information from bone weathering

Anna K. Behrensmeyer · Paleobiology · 1978 · 2.8K citations · Full text

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Bathymetry of trace fossils

Adolf Seilacher · Marine Geology · 1967 · 1.1K citations

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Taphonomy: releasing the data locked in the fossil record

Choice Reviews Online · 1992 · 984 citations

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Differential Burning, Recrystallization, and Fragmentation of Archaeological Bone

Mary C. Stiner, Steven L. Kuhn, Stephen Weiner et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science · 1995 · 970 citations

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    Derek E. G. Briggs

    Yale University, United States

    36 publications · 3K citations

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    Derek E. G. Briggs

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    25 publications · 3K citations

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    Shuhai Xiao

    Virginia Tech, United States

    20 publications · 2K citations

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    James D. Schiffbauer

    University of Missouri, United States

    20 publications · 1.4K citations

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    Mary L. Droser

    University of California, Riverside, United States

    18 publications · 1K citations

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  1. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    51 h-index

    176 publications

    18.2K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    45 h-index

    413 publications

    20K citations

  3. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    38 h-index

    104 publications

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  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    31 h-index

    121 publications

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  5. American Museum of Natural History

    New York, United States

    31 h-index

    63 publications

    3.7K citations

  6. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    27 h-index

    60 publications

    6.1K citations

  7. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    27 h-index

    67 publications

    3.4K citations

  8. Virginia Tech

    Blacksburg, United States

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    51 publications

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  1. Geology

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  2. Palaios

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  3. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

    112 publications · 6.6K citations

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  4. Paleobiology

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  5. Nature

    46 publications · 3.3K citations

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