thanatocoenose
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edit- IPA(key): /θəˌnætəʊˈsiːnəʊs/
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editthanatocoenose (plural thanatocoenoses)
- A collection of dead life forms that are found together, having previously interacted as a community within an ecosystem.
- 1977, H. Löffler, D. Danielopol, Aspects of Ecology and Zoogeography of Recent and Fossil Ostracoda, page 454:
- This sort of thanatocoenose is typical of lakes with a semi-arid climate (Early Triassic period in the Kuznetsk Basin, Middle Jurassic- Lower Cretaceous of Middle Asia).
- 1989, Hans M. Bolli, John B. Saunders, Katharina Perch-Nielsen, Plankton Stratigraphy, volume 2, page 764:
- The fossil diatom assemblage or thanatocoenose found in sediments typially represents as little as 1-5% of the original living assemblage or biocoenose.
- 2008, R. Lee Lyman, Quantitative Paleozoology, page 23:
- Given that paleozoologists sample the geological record (i.e., where faunal remains are deposited as a particular kind of sedimentary particle), they don't always have a complete thanatocoenose lying on the lab table.
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editdead life forms found together
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