found: Work cat.: Shipman, P. Life history of a fossil, 1981:p. 6 (a branch of paleontology ... taphonomy ... the study of the transition of animal remains from the biosphere into the lithosphere)
found: Dict. geol. terms(taphonomy: the study of the death and decay of organisms, including the process of preservation as fossils)
found: LC data base, 2/28/89(taphonomy)
found: Random House(1. the circumstances & process of fossilization, 2. Study of the environmental conditions affecting the preservation of animal & plant remains)
found: Dict. earth sci.(taphonomy: study of the processes affecting an organism from its death to its possible fossilization)
found: GeoRef.
found: Geosaurus.