Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of paleontology that deals with the fossils of plants, animals, and other organisms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That branch of biology which treats of fossil organisms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The branch of
biology orpaleontology concerned with the study offossils ofplants andanimals
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a branch of paleontology that deals with the origin and growth and structure of fossil animals and plants as living organisms
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Examples
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Buried next to him is another Yale paleontologist, Charles Schuchert (July 3, 1858-November 20 1942), who coined the term paleobiology in 1904.
"You fall from grace, but fall with such grace. " greygirlbeast 2008
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As part of the event, players get an assist from real-world Smithsonian scientists in areas such as forensic anthropology, paleobiology and entomology.
Interactive game 'Vanished' doubles as an educational tool 2011
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Evidently Charles Pellegrino is a scientist of “paleobiology, astronomy and other areas.”
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Scientific findings in many fields, including my own paleobiology as well as geology, geophysics, geochemistry, developmental biology, and systematics, have led to a synthesis of the events surrounding the Cambrian explosion that is in full accord with well-established evolutionary principles.
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Am not surprised that University of Texas, Austin is involved, since it has several great groups in systematic biology, ecology and paleobiology:
NSF Center for the Study of Evolution in Action Funded - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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The fossil, called Darwinius masillae and said to be a female, provides the most complete understanding of the paleobiology of any primate so far discovered from the Eocene Epoch, Hurum said.
47 Million Year Old Primate Fossil Discovered | Impact Lab 2009
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Last year I learned in a keynote lecture on molecular paleobiology, given by Kevin Peterson, that a paleontologist not necessarily studies fossils, i.e. something excavated from earth.
What is a Paleontologist? ReBecca Foster 2009
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This is the first occurrence of multiple individuals of Triceratops in the same quarry and raises potentially interesting questions regarding Triceratops paleobiology.
The first Triceratops bonebed ... ReBecca Foster 2009
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Scientific findings in many fields, including my own paleobiology as well as geology, geophysics, geochemistry, developmental biology, and systematics, have led to a synthesis of the events surrounding the Cambrian explosion that is in full accord with well-established evolutionary principles.
Egregiously stupid remark of the week by an IDiot - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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D. degrees - but nonetheless has established himself as serious, quite credible, scientific researcher in vertebrate paleobiology.
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