Tafonomia
Taphos (grave, burial, grave, nomos - law) - study of the post-mortem fate of organic remains, both contemporary (subfossil remains) and fossils (fossils). The concept of tafonomy was introduced by Russian paleontologist Ivan Jefiev in 1940.
Tafonomia investigates the effects of biological agents (bodily degradation, bio-erosion, bioturbation), physical (transport, mechanical erosion), and chemical (diagenesis) on the behavior of organic debris and their fossilisation and the formation of post- Bibliography
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