What is "taphonomy"?
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Taphonomy is the study of the fate of the remains of organisms after they die. The term taphonomy, (from the Greek taphos meaning burial, and nomos meaning law), was introduced to palaeontology in 1940 by a Russian scientist, Ivan Efremov. Taphonomists study such phenomena as biostratinomy, decomposition, diagenesis, and epibiont encrustation.
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