Bibliography of plant macrofossil (leaf) and insect taphonomy
by Dena M Smith

• Baas, M., Briggs, D.E.G., Heemst, J.D.H.V., Kear, A.J. and Leeuw, J.W.D., 1995. Selective preservation of chitin during the decay of shrimp. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 59(5): 945-951.
• Briggs, D.E.G., 1999. Molecular taphonomy of animal and plant cuticles: selective preservation and diagenesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 354: 7-17.
• Briggs, D.E.G., Stankiewicz, B.A., Meischner, D., Bierstedt, A. and Evershed, R.P., 1998. Taphonomy of arthropod cuticles from Pliocene lake sediments, Willershausen, Germany. Palaios, 13(4): 386-394.
• Burnham, R.J., Wing, S.L. and Parker, G.G., 1992. The reflection of deciduous forest communities in leaf litter: implications for autochthonous litter assemblages from the fossil record. Paleobiology, 18(1): 30-49.
• Coffin, H.G., 1983. Erect floating stumps in Spirit Lake, Washington. Geology, 11: 298-299.
• Collinson, M.E., 1983. Accumulations of fruits and seeds in three small sedimentary environments in southern England and their palaeoecological implications. Annals of Botany, 52: 583-592.
• Drake, H. and Burrows, C.J., 1980. The influx of potential macrofossils into Lady Lake, north Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 18: 257-274.
• Duncan, I.J. and Briggs, D.E.G., 1996. Three-dimensionally preserved insects. Nature, 381: 30-31.
• Duncan, I.J., Briggs, D.E.G. and Archer, M., 1998. Three-dimensionally mineralized insects and millipedes from the Tertiary of Riversleigh, Queensland, Australia. Palaeontology, 41(5): 835-851.
• Ferguson, D.K., 1985. The origin of leaf-assemblages - new light on an old problem. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 46: 117-188.
• Ferguson, D.K., 1995. Plant part processing and community reconstruction. Ecologae geol. helv., 88(3): 627-641.
• Gastaldo, R.A., 1986. Selected aspects of plant taphonomic processes in coastal deltaic regimes. In: R.A. Gastaldo (Editor), Land Plants: Notes for a short course. University of Tennessee Department of Geological Sciences Studies in Geology. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, pp. 27-44.
• Gastaldo, R.A., 1988. Conspectus of Phytotaphonomy. In: W.A. DiMichele and S.L. Wing (Editors), Methods and Applications of Plant Paleoecology. The Paleontological Society Special Publication. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, pp. 14-26.
• Gastaldo, R.A., 1989. Plant taphonomy - organic sedimentary processes. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 58: 1-85.
• Hanlon, R.D.G., 1982. The breakdown and decomposition of allochthonous and autochthonous plant litter in an oligotrophic lake (Llyn Frongoch). Hydrobiologia, 88: 281-288.
• Henwood, A.A., 1993. Ecology and taphonomy of Dominican Republic Amber. Lethaia, 26(3): 237-245.
• Hof, C.H.J. and Briggs, D.E.G., 1997. Decay and mineralization of mantis shrimps (Stromatopoda: Crustacea) - A key to their fossil record. Palaios, 12: 420-443.
• McCobb, L.M.E. et al., 1998. Taphonomy of the insects from the insect bed (Bembridge Marls), late Eocene, Isle of Wight, England. Geological Magazine, 135(4): 553-563.
• Miller, R.F., Voss-Foucart, M.F., Toussant, C. and Jeuniaux, C., 1993. Chitin preservation in Quaternary coleoptera: Preliminary results. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 103: 133-140.
• Park, L.E., 1995. Geochemical and paleoenvironmental analysis of lacustrine arthropod-bearing concretions of the Barstow Formation, southern California. Palaios, 10(1): 44-57.
• Rau, G.H., 1976. Dispersal of terrestrial plant litter into a subalpine lake. Oikos, 27: 153-160.
• Rex, G.M. and Chaloner, W.G., 1983. The experimental formation of plant compression fossils. Palaeontology, 26(2): 231-252.
• Rust, J., 1998. Biostratinomy of insects from the Fur Formation of Denmark (Moler, Upper Paleocene/Lower Eocene). Palaontologische Zeitschrift, 72(1/2): 41-58.
• Smith, D. M. In Prep. Insect taphonomy in a recent ephemeral lake, southeasrern Arizona.
• Spicer, R.A., 1977. The pre-depositional formation of some leaf impressions. Palaeontology, 20(4): 907-912.
• Spicer, R.A., 1980. The importance of depositional sorting to the biostratigraphy of plant megafossils. In: D.L. Dilcher and T.N. Taylor (Editors), Biostratigraphy of Fossil Plants. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. pp.171-183.
• Spicer, R.A., 1981. The sorting and deposition of allochthonous plant material in a modern environment at Silwood Lake, Silwood Park, Berkshire, England. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1143:1-77.
• Spicer, R.A., 1989. The formation and interpretation of plant fossil assemblages. Advances in Botanical Research, 16: 96-147.
• Spicer, R.A., 1991a. Plant taphonomic processes. In: P.A. Allison and D.E.G. Briggs (Editors), Taphonomy: Releasing the data locked in the fossil record. Topics in Geobiology. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 71-113.
• Spicer, R.A., 1991b. The sorting and deposition of allochthonous plant material in a modern environment at Silwood Lake, Silwood Park, Berkshire, England. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1143: 1-77.
• Spicer, R.A. and Greer, A.G., 1986. Plant taphonomy in fluvial and lacustrine systems. In: R.A. Gastaldo (Editor), Land Plants: Notes for a short course. University of Tennessee Department of Geological Sciences Studies in Geology. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, pp. 10-26.
• Spicer, R.A. and Wolfe, J.A., 1987. Plant taphonomy of late holocene deposits in Trinity (Clair Engle) Lake, northern California. Paleobiology, 13(2): 227-245.
• Stankiewicz, B.A., Briggs, D.E.G., Evershed, R.P. and Duncan, I.J., 1997a. Chemical preservation of insect cuticle from the Pleistocene asphalt deposits of California, USA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta., 61(11): 2247-2252.
• Stankiewicz, B.A., Briggs, D.E.G., Evershed, R.P., Flannery, M.B. and Wuttke, M., 1997b. Preservation of chitin in 25-million-year-old fossils. Science, 276: 1541-1543.
• Stankiewicz, B.A., Poinar, H.N., Briggs, D.E.G., Evershed, R.P. and Jr., G.O.P., 1998a. Chemical preservation of plants and insects in natural resins. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 265: 641-647.
• Stankiewicz, B.A. et al., 1998b. Molecular taphonomy of arthropod and plant cuticles from the Carboniferous of North America: implications for the origin of kerogen. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 155: 453-462.
• Vries, H.D., Bredemeijer, G. and Heinen, W., 1966. The decay of cutin and cuticular components by soil microorganisms in their natural environment. Acta Botanica Neerl., 16(3): 102-110.
• Wilson, M.V.H., 1980. Eocene lake environments: depth and distance-from-shore variation in fish, insect and plant assemblages. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 32: 21-44.
• Wilson, M.V.H., 1988. Reconstruction of ancient lake environments using both autochthonous and allochthonous fossils. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 62: 609-623.
• Wilson, M.V.H. and Barton, D.G., 1996. Seven centuries of taphonomic variation in Eocene freshwater fishes preserved in varves: paleoenvironments and temporal averaging. Paleobiology, 22(4): 535-542.
• Wing, S.L., 1988. Depositional environments of plant bearing sediments. In: W.A. DiMichele and S.L. Wing (Editors), Methods and Applications of Plant Paleoecology. The paleontological society special publication. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, pp. 1-12.