Talk:Taphonomy

Preservation?
Would it be appropriate to have an in depth discussion of preservation here? I think so; there doesn't seem to be one on wikipedia and its definitely covered within taphonomy. || instantn00dle 12:44, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Study or process
Taphonomy is a new word for me. Found it in evolutionary history of plants. There it seems to be the process of fossilization. Here it is defined as the study of decaying and fossilization. Could it be that the process in itself is included in the concept, not only the study of it? --Ettrig (talk) 11:42, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

First Link
The first link is down. 216.41.199.116 (talk) 18:35, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Greek
As far as I know, τάφος means grave, and not burial. But maybe my Greek is too weak. We must seek a geek with a more solid technique... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stm76 (talk • contribs) 17:22, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

preservation bias redirect?
This section should be showing up when you search for "preservation bias". Perhaps a redirect?

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EBSCO Source
That url is not a redirect to a content page, that url is actually the login page, I can recognize the urls which have content but just requiring the login before they can be accessed. We cannot just assume that someone tried to cite something which is behind the login page. What if someone just added fake spam urls? We need to replace them with citation needed tags! Sheriff &#124; ☎ 911 &#124; 14:35, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The URL is http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=96859831&site=eds-live&scope=site&profile=eds-main. The "AN" bit is an accession number and this (presumably together with the database id) identifies a resource. I wasn't able to recover it now, but I'm sure someone who knows more about ebsco will be able to. This ref (together with several more) was added in 2015  by a student editor, likely as a part of a course, and they're a different editor from the one who originally contributed the text. Given this context, removing the refs is a possible option, but not unless an effort has been made to track down the sources. – Uanfala (talk) 15:02, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Astrobiology is not taphonomy
The inclusion of Astrobiology as a section here is not appropriate since fossils have not yet been found on other planets. Taphonomy is the process from life to death to fossilization, none of which is known for Astrobiology. At this point anything about life on other planets is speculative, not based on fact. 144.39.6.17 (talk) 23:31, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Microbial Symbiosis and Microbiomes
— Assignment last updated by Jdayala (talk) 01:30, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

New publication describing how ancient biological cells and tissues preserve as biopolymers
I posted the text below to the talk section for the Biopolymer Preservation page, but I think I should've just posted it here. It's a new, significant publication on molecular taphonomy:

Here is a recent, peer-reviewed publication describing, for the first time with in-depth chemistry, how biological cells and soft tissues preserve into the fossil record. Since this page is on biopolymer preservation, I think the information from this publication may be desirable to add. Here is the link to the actual article:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825223000569#f0040

And here is a link to a news article that describes the peer-reviewed article in layman's terms:

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-dinosaur-tissues-deep.html 184.170.72.76 (talk) 05:52, 8 May 2023 (UTC)