Thanatocoenose vs Coenose - What's the difference?
thanatocoenose | coenose | Derived terms |
A collection of dead life forms that are found together, having previously interacted as a community within an ecosystem.
*1977 , H. Löffler, ?D. Danielopol, Aspects of Ecology and Zoogeography of Recent and Fossil Ostracoda , page 454:
*1989 , Hans M. Bolli, ?John B. Saunders, ?Katharina Perch-Nielsen, Plankton Stratigraphy , Volume 2, page 764:
*2008 , R. Lee Lyman, Quantitative Paleozoology , page 23:
Coenose is a derived term of thanatocoenose.
As nouns the difference between thanatocoenose and coenose
is that thanatocoenose is a collection of dead life forms that are found together, having previously interacted as a community within an ecosystem while coenose is a collection of life forms that are found together, interacting as a community within an ecosystem.thanatocoenose
English
Noun
(en noun)- This sort of thanatocoenose is typical of lakes with a semi-arid climate (Early Triassic period in the Kuznetsk Basin, Middle Jurassic- Lower Cretaceous of Middle Asia).
- The fossil diatom assemblage or thanatocoenose found in sediments typially represents as little as 1-5% ofthe original living assemblage or biocoenose.
- Given that paleozoologists sample the geological record (i.e., where faunal remains are deposited as a particular kind of sedimentary particle), they don't always have a complete thanatocoenose lying on the lab table.