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Taphonomic approaches to time resolution in fossil assemblages: Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

Susan M. Kidwell  and
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Susan M. Kidwell
Affiliation:
Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago 5734, South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Affiliation:
Department of Paleobiology, MRC NHB 121, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
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Since their inception in 1978, the annual short courses sponsored by the Paleontological Society have aimed to broaden and to enhance the professional education of paleontologists, including students new to the field. The 1993 short course continues in that tradition, but differs from many previous courses in focussing not on a taxonomic group but on a broader aspect of the fossil record, namely the time resolution of fossil assemblages. This seemed an especially good topic for a short course because questions of absolute and relative time – how old? how fast? how synchronously? – pervade paleontology and historical geology in general.

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Short Courses in Paleontology , Volume 6: Taphonomic Approaches to Time Resolution in Fossil Assemblages , 1993 , pp. 1 - 8
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Copyright © 1993 Paleontological Society 

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