A Bonebeds Database

Classification, Biases, and Patterns of Occurrence

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ID23636844
AuthorsDavid A Eberth (0009-0009-4671-7078), Matthew Shannon (0009-0007-5519-5756), Brent C Noland
Year2007
Pages103-220
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueBonebeds (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7208/chicago/9780226723730.003.0003
OpenAlexW2484718763
ISBN9780226723730
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This chapter, which presents and reviews a database of 383 citations that refer to more than 1,000 bonebeds, offers additional insight into how bonebeds formed in the past and what they can tell us about the ancient environments within which they formed. Its goals are to: identify, characterize, and document different types of bonebed; identify historical and scientific biases in the treatment of bonebeds; demonstrate the relative frequency of different types of bonebed in the database; identify and quantify patterns of occurrence for the different types of bonebed; and identify and quantify patterns of association between bonebed type and paleoenvironment. Most bonebeds in the database are easily classified using one or more of the following three measures: element size, taxonomic diversity, and relative taxonomic abundance. In addition, patterns of occurrence are identified in relation to the relative abundance of different types of bonebed, inferred mechanisms of origin, and recurrent associations of bonebed type and paleoenvironment.

Abundance (ecology) · Biology · Database · Relative species abundance · Type (biology) · Computer Science · Ecology · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Geology · Morphological variations and asymmetry · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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