Where to Dig for Fossils: Combining Climate-Envelope, Taphonomy and Discovery Models.

Fossils represent invaluable data to reconstruct the past history of life, yet fossil-rich sites are often rare and difficult to find. The traditional fossil-hunting approach focuses on small areas and has not yet taken advantage of modelling techniques commonly used in ecology to account for an org...

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Main Authors: Sebastián Block, Frédérik Saltré, Marta Rodríguez-Rey, Damien A Fordham, Ingmar Unkel, Corey J A Bradshaw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4814095?pdf=render