Biostratinomy
![Conceptual relationships of biostratinomic processes (yellow) with paleoecology (green), necrology and fossildiagenesis (orange).[1]](/Images/godic/202412/24/States_of_taphonomic_preservation.svg5552.png")
Biostratinomy is the study of the processes that take place after an organism dies but before its final burial. It is considered to be a subsection of the science of taphonomy, along with necrology (the study of the death of an organism) and diagenesis (the changes that take place after final burial). These processes are largely destructive, and include physical, chemical and biological effects: