Examples of reelaborated ammonites

Abstract

Identify reelaborated fossils requires knowing the meaning of the term taphonomic reelaboration and the diagnostic criteria that can be used to test such preservation state. In the present work: 1) we make explicit the meaning of the taphonomic terms: accumulation, remotion or reworking, resedimentation and reelaboration, understood as diverse categories of the same taphonomic classification system; 2) showing a model of the process of taphonomic reelaboration; and 3) displaying diverse examples of accumulated (2), resedimented (2) and reelaborated (16) ammonites.