This paper reviews the ultrastructure and chemistry of fish bone, with an emphasis on
zooarchaeology and stable isotope analysis. On the basis of the chemical composition of the …

Aim For 80 years, popular opinion has held that most of Madagascar's terrestrial vertebrates
arrived from Africa by transoceanic dispersal (ie rafting or swimming). We reviewed this …

The volume of literature on taphonomic modifications to faunal remains created by a
particular animal species in an actualistic neotaphonomic (ANT) context has grown rapidly …

The 24 extant crocodylian species are the remnants of a once much more diverse and
widespread clade. Crocodylomorpha has an approximately 230 million year evolutionary …

Comparing the magnitude of the current biodiversity crisis with those in the fossil record is
difficult without an understanding of differential preservation. Integrating data from …

The end-Cretaceous (K/Pg) mass extinction event is the most recent and well-understood of
the “big five” and triggered establishment of modern terrestrial ecosystem structure. Despite …

Spatiotemporal changes in fossil specimen completeness can bias our understanding of a
group's evolutionary history. The quality of the sauropodomorph fossil record was assessed …

The Lopingian is characterised by an aridisation trend and substantial sea-level changes.
Hence, the fossil record of this time interval is strongly affected by ecological and …

Ecologists and paleontologists alike are increasingly using the fossil record as a spatial data
set, in particular to study the dynamics and distribution of geographic range sizes among …

This paper reviews how human impacts produced a marked shift from natural processes in
the potential input of terrestrial mammals to the fossil record, both in composition of the …