Taphonomy

Death is a Sure Bet, Fossilization is a Long Shot
Paper on plant and invertebrate taphonomy by Aaron Spriggs.
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/en570/papers_1998/spriggs.htm

International Plant Taphonomy Meeting
Informal workshops focusing on recent developments in the science of plant taphonomy. Meeting information and abstracts.
http://www.mineralogie.uni-wuerzburg.de/tapho/tapho1.html

Journal of Taphonomy
The aim of the Journal of Taphonomy is to facilitate the academic spread of information that is basic to the interpretation of past systems of biotic interaction. Provides submission and subscription information.
http://www.journaltaphonomy.com

Plant Fossils and Their Preservation
Includes a section of conditions required for plant fossil preservation, the various levels of preservation, and types of fossils.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/IB181/VPL/Pres/PresTitle.html

Shelf and Slope Environmental Taphonomy Initiative
Research project to measure taphonomic rates in a range of continental shelf and slope environments of deposition.
http://www.sidsnet.org/successtories/6.html

Shelf and Slope Experimental Taphonomy Initiative
SSETI is an undersea research program which aims to use controlled experiments to measure modern processes of decay, alteration, and burial in order to better understand taphonomic processes.
http://vertigo.hsrl.rutgers.edu/SSETI.html

Taphonomy
Information from Wikipedia on the study of decaying organisms over long periods of time. This process involves the transition of organisms from the biosphere to the lithosphere as they become fossilized.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taphonomy

Taphonomy
A brief introduction from Deciphering Earth History: A Laboratory Manual.
http://www.colby.edu/~ragastal/Taphonomy.htm

Taphonomy and Preservation
Comprehensive tutorial on taphonomy and preservation from the State University of New York at Cortland.
http://paleo.cortland.edu/tutorial/Taphonomy%26Pres/taphonomy.htm

Taphonomy: Insight into Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Evolution
Abstracts of taphonomy papers presented at the 2002 meeting of the Geological Society of America.
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002NE/finalprogram/session_2068.htm

Taphonomy: Learning from the Dead
Description and syllabus of this field course in vertebrate and invertebrate taphonomy.
http://www.geol.vt.edu/paleo/fieldtaph.htm

Taphonomy: New Branch of Paleontology
Article written by Professor Ivan Efremov in 1940 which first introduced the study of taphonomy.
http://www.astro.spbu.ru/staff/serg/interests/literature/efremov/tapharticle1.html

Taphonomy of the Rhynie Chert
University of Aberdeen presentation of the preservation of biota in Rhynie chert.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/rhynie/tapho.htm

Taphonomy: The Study of Preservation
Provides an explanation of what preservation means in relation to paleontology and the deductions that can be made from examining fossils.
http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/paleontology/taphonomy.html

Taphos 2002
Program of the 2002 International Conference on Taphonomy and Fossilization.
http://paleopolis.rediris.es/paleontologia/Taphos2002/