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The study of echinoid evolution, diversity, and ecology has always suffered from the fact that they are represented by taxa showing widely differing architectural designs of their multi-plated skeletons, inhabiting a large range of marine paleoenvironments, which result in highly varying taphonomic biases dictating their presence and recognition. This Element addresses the taphonomy of echinoids and includes: a general introduction to the morphological features of echinoids that play a role in their preservation; a review of processes which play an important role in the differential preservation of both regular and irregular echinoids including predation and transport; a summary of taphonomic pathways included in actualistic studies for recent sea urchins and then reconstructed for fossil taxa; and finally, a case study of the variation of echinoid taphonomy across a shelf gradient using the rich Miocene echinoid fauna of Sardinia.
Sea urchins, Fossil. --- Taphonomy. --- Sea urchins --- Evolution.
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Human remains (Archaeology) --- Taphonomy. --- Orkney --- Archaeology
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Paleoecology --- Taphonomy --- Vertebrates, Fossil --- Congresses --- Congresses --- Congresses
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Taphonomy. --- Animal remains (Archaeology) --- Taphonomie --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie) --- Taphonomy --- Paleontology --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie)
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Paleoecology. --- Taphonomy. --- Vertebrates, Fossil. --- Paleoecology --- Taphonomy --- Vertebrates, Fossil --- Chordata, Fossil --- Paleontology --- Palaeoecology --- Ecology --- Paleobiology
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Forensic taphonomy. --- Postmortem changes. --- Animal carcasses --- Forensic entomology. --- Biodegradation.
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Mammals, Fossil --- Reptiles, Fossil --- Paleontology --- Paleontology --- Taphonomy --- Paleoecology --- Animal populations
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Taphonomy --- Fossils --- Taphonomie --- Fossiles --- Congresses. --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Congrès
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Forensic taphonomy. --- Postmortem changes. --- Animal carcasses --- Forensic entomology. --- Biodegradation.
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Taphonomy --- Forensic anthropology --- Forensic Anthropology --- Fossils --- Postmortem Changes --- Environment