The faunal remains were examined and compared to collections at the taphonomic processes that contributed to the deposition of the micromammal remains at Elands Bay Cave is important because it has identified a number of predators likely responsible for the accumulation of faunal material . that became a great tool for formation of micromammal collection.
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Due to the inception and on-going significance of taphonomic and palaeozoological research within these fields, it is now well-known and widely accepted that hyenid species transport and accumulate bone material within cave systems used as dens, which can ultimately result in fossil assemblages ( see Maguire " et al " . 1980
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The term " Ediacaran biota " and similar ( " Ediacara " / " Ediacaran " / " Ediacarian " / " Vendian ", " fauna " / " biota " ) has, at various times, been used in a geographic, stratigraphic, taphonomic, or biological sense, with the latter the most common in modern literature.
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The Clactonian material, in this view, comes from " disturbed contexts " or is a matter of interpretation of stones that could be natural or from some other time and the evidence of the Corbeddu Cave is " simply not very robust " due to " taphonomic questions; " i . e ., questions of the dates of the fossils.
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It was also proposed that similar damage in other pachycephalosaur specimens previously explained as taphonomic artifacts and bone absorptions may instead have been due to such behavior . " Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis " specimen BMR P2001.4 . 5 was observed to have 23 lesions in its family, despite the fact that these genera vary with respect to the size and architecture of their domes, and fact that they existed during varying geologic periods . where intra-specific combat behavior is not expected.
