埋藏学（英语：Taphonomy ）又叫化石形成学，是研究生物如何石化的一门学科[1]。研究生物体从生物圈变为岩石圈的过程[2][3]。相关学科有古生物学、地质学。
参考文献
- ^ Lyman, R. Lee. What Taphonomy Is, What it Isn't, and Why Taphonomists Should Care about the Difference. Journal of taphonomy. 2010-01-01, 8 (1): 1–16 [2018-03-04]. ISSN 1696-0815. （原始内容存档于2017-04-27）.
- ^ Efremov, I. A. Taphonomy: a new branch of paleontology. Pan-American Geology. 1940, 74: 81–93 [2018-03-04]. （原始内容存档于2008-04-03）.
- ^ Martin, Ronald E. (1999) "1.1 The foundations of taphonomy" Taphonomy: A Process Approach Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, p. 1, ISBN 0-521-59833-8
