Topics in Geobiology

1. Taphonomy: bias and process through time Peter A. Allison & David J. Bottjer 2. Taphonomic overprints on biodiversity: a database approach to the quantification of Phanerozoic trends Austin Hendy & Carl Brett 3. Taphonomy of shelly taxa through time: were aragonitic infauna selectively dissolved? V.Paul Wright & Lesley Cherns 4. Taphonomy of shelly taxa through time: shell durability in mixed carbonate/clastic sequences Carl E. Brett, Austin Hendy, Peter A. Allison 5. Taphonomy of animal organic skeletons though time Neal Gupta & D.E.G.Briggs 6. Molecular taphonomy of plant organic skeletons Margaret E. Collinson 7. The relationship between continental landscape evolution and the plant-fossil record: Long term hydrologic controls on preservation Robert A. Gastaldo & Timothy M. Demko 8. Hierarchical control of terrestrial vertebrate taphonomy over space and time: Discussion of mechanisms and implications for vertebrate paleobiology Christopher Noto 9. Taphonomy of carbonate microfacies through time James Nebelsick, Michael Rasser, & Davide Bassi 10. Taphonomy of reefs through time Rachel Wood 11. Silicification through time Susan Butts and D.E.G. Briggs 12. Phosphatization through the Phanerozoic Steve Dornbos 13. Three-dimensional morphological (CLSM) and chemical (Raman) imagery of cellularly mineralized fossils J. William Schopf, Abhishek B. Tripathi, & Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev 14. Taphonomy in temporally unique settings: Precambrian Lagerstatte - out of this world? Nicola McLoughlin, David Wacey, & Martin Brasier 15. Taphonomy in temporally unique settings: the Ediacaran interval Jonathan Antcliffe, Richard Callow, & Martin Brasier 16. Mass extinctions and changing taphonomic processes Margaret L. Fraiser, Matthew Clapham, & David J, Bottjer