Paleontography (from

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

παλαιός “old”, ὤν "being", γραφή "I write") is the formal description of

fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...

remains. 3. Sierra Madre Mountain News, 1999, Volume 2, issue 30. It is a subdiscipline of

paleontology Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

. The term has been in use in this sense for more than a hundred and fifty years, for example by the Palaeontographical Society. A paleontographer (or palaeontographer) is anyone who works in the field. The term has recently been adopted for someone who uses medical imaging technology to scan fossils. Mainly use CT scan or a non-invasive scan technology. Sean Mclain Brown, journalist at the Sierra Madre Mountain News, first coined the term in February 1999 in the Sierra Madre Mountain News (Volume 2, issue 30). Inventor/Software engineer Lee Schiel of Early Response Imaging https://issuu.com/villagenewsinc/docs/10-10-14-tvn and Doctors Michael Smith and John Nesson of Arcadia Methodist Hospital were the first pioneers of this field in the late 1990s.

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{{Paleo-stub Subfields of paleontology