| Therefore, the best hope for understanding global diversity patterns is to collect information on local assemblages. |
| This is one of the richest and most diverse set of assemblages yet described from South China. |
| Actual juvenile mortality rates for large mammals are generally higher than indicated by life tables based on bone assemblages. |
| Modern rhinos are, unfortunately, so rare that fossil assemblages are far more common than modern assemblages. |
| There are hammerstones, cores, and flakes associated with the manufacturing of Oldowan assemblages, as well as choppers and scrapers. |
| On the other hand, the majority of fossil vertebrate assemblages accumulate over many temporal scales from days to millennia. |
