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

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

Journal of Taphonomy - http://www.journaltaphonomy.com
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.

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

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

Taphonomy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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