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1、TWENTY-FIVEDinosaurTaphonomyANTHONYR.FIORILLODAVIDA.EBERTHWhatIsTaphonomyandWhyIsitteamsassembledtofind,collect,andstudydinosaursinremoteImportantintheStudyofDinosaurs?regionsoftheworld(Currieetal.,1993,Currie1996b,2001;Fio-rilloandGangloff1999,2000;Fiorilloetal.1
2、999;Krauseetal.Taphonomywasoriginallydefinedasthestudyofthephysical1999;Ishiietal.2000)includegeologistsandbiologistswhotransitionofanimalremainsfromthebiospheretothelitho-combinetheirexpertisetorecordandinterprettaphonomicsphere(Efremov1940).Initsbroadermoderndef
3、initionanddata(Eberth1993;Jerzykiewiczetal.1993;Johnstonetal.1996;applications(BehrensmeyerandKidwell1985;BehrensmeyerFastovskyetal.1997;Loopeetal.1998;Eberthetal.2001a;etal.2000),taphonomyisthestudyofallbioticandabioticfac-Rogersetal.2001).Multidisciplinaryapproa
4、chestotaphonomytorsthatinfluencethepreservationoforganismalremainsafterarefurthernecessitatedbyspecializedanalyticaltechniques,death.Taphonomicfactorsremoveormodifyinformationaboutsuchaspetrographicanalysesandgeochemicalfingerprintinglivingorganismsandassemblages(
5、e.g.,softtissuedecomposi-offossilboneandpaleosols(Hubertetal.1996;Truemanandtion,bonedispersal)andthereforecreateabiasedpictureofBenton1997;Trueman1999;TherrienandFastovsky2000).theirbiologyandenvironmentalandecologicalassociations.Ultimately,taphonomyisapowerfulm
6、ultidisciplinarytoolThus,studiesoftaphonomicinfluencesprovideopportunitiesthatcanbeusedtoestablishandtestideasaboutpaleobiology,toidentifybiasesandremovethemfromourinterpretationsofpaleobehavior,paleocommunitystructureandevolution,paleo-paleobiology,paleoenvironme
7、nts,andpaleoecology.ecology,paleoenvironments,andthenatureoffossiliferousAlthoughtaphonomyisfundamentallyameanstoassessdepositionalsystems.Giventheheartyscientificandpopularinformationlossorbiasindeadorganisms(Lyman1994,fig.2.2),appetiteforallthingsdinosauriansinc
8、etheso-called“Dinosauritcanalsobeviewedasatooltogatherandgaininformation.Renaissance”ofthe1970s(Bakker1968,1980),itisnotsurpris-Therecognitionandcompari
