摘要
古生态学是古生物学的高级理论综合形态,它研究古代生物与古代环境的相互关系。它的的研究对象是"古生态系",也就是古生物与古环境的总和。然而,它实际面临的材料却是死板的古代生物化石及其沉积围岩,它们在古今岩石圈里经历了一系列变化,而要由它们来推导古代生物圈则需要经过若干努力,去做所谓"复原"的工作。
Taphonomy,studying the law of bury of organisms,is a branch and generalized form of palaeoecology.Its history of development can be approximately subdivided into three stages:(1)stage of pregnancy;(2)stage of emergence (in 1940,Y.A.Yephremov normally suggested the name of this discipline);(3)modern stage.This new and develop- ing discipline is becoming even more important on resolving the essential quistions of geology and palaeontology.
出处
《大自然探索》
1990年第1期105-110,共6页
Discovery of Nature
