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fossil record

noun

Definitions

  1. The collective record of biological development that is reflected in the fossilized…

    The collective record of biological development that is reflected in the fossilized remains of organisms through geological history.

    • Paleontologists study the fossil record.
    • But the more that was learned about the fossil record, the more difficult it was to maintain that an entire age, spanning tens of millions of years, had somehow or other gone missing.

  2. The record of preserved evidence for a single species or taxon.

    • Trilobites have an extensive fossil record.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fossil record. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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