Fossilization : Understanding the Material Nature of Ancient Plants and Animals.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction to the Limits of the Fossil Record -- 2 Organic Phase Preservation in Fossil Dinosaur and Other Tetrapod Bone from Deep Time: Extending the Probable Osteocyte Record to the Early Permian -- 3 Fossilization of Reproduction- Related Hard and Soft Tissues and Structures in Non- Avian Dinosaurs and Birds -- 4 Raman Spectroscopy in Fossilization Research: Basic Principles, Applications in Paleontology, and a Case Study on an Acanthodian Fish Spine -- 5 From Ultrastructure to Biomolecular Composition: Taphonomic Patterns of Tissue Preservation in Arthropod Inclusions in Amber -- 6 Experimental Silicification of Wood in the Lab and Field: Pivotal Studies and Open Questions -- 7 The Structure and Chemistry of Silica in Mineralized Wood: Techniques and Analysis -- 8 Exceptional Fossilization of Ecological Interactions: Plant Defenses during the Four Major Expansions of Arthropod Herbivory in the Fossil Record -- 9 Color in Living and Fossil Plants: The Search for Biological Pigments in the Paleobotanical Record -- 10 The Future of Fossilization -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

McCoy, Martina Menneken, Jes Rust, P. Martin Sander, Frank Tomaschek, Torsten Wappler, Kayleigh Wiersma, Tzu-Ruei Yang.

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