Volcanic rocks likely to embed fossil vertebrates and associated morphological and/or taphonomic features, sorted by increasing temperature range.

Preservation of the Karacaşar rhino (submitted to a ∼400–450°C temperature) is most likely tied to a pyroclastic density current, reminiscent of that of Pompeii-Herculaneum-Oplontis, of Vesuvius origin (79 AD).