Importance and role of neotaphonomic collections: the example of microvertebrate and experimental collection management
Résumé
The development of taphonomy has improved our knowledge of site formation and palaeoenvironmental
reconstructions. It has also stimulated many neotaphonomic analyses that bring clues to some of the
alterations and modifications processes of fossilisation and accumulations. This article aims to show that
such neotaphonomic analyses and experiments, by generating a lot of valuable material and associate data,
need to be integrated into official collections for future preservation. We will focus here upon two examples
of neotaphonomic collections: 1 owl pellet microvertebrate collections and 2 collections resulting from
experimental work (simulation and monitoring). We detail some problems for incorporating such new type
of materials in Museums and some requirements for their curation. In the era of open science, there is a need
to improve the management and curation of such unconventional collections to incorporate them into
future classical comparative research, training and education as well as exhibitions.
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