The record of the occurrence and evolution of living organisms through geological time as inferred from fossils.
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- They are absent in the fossil record between the Early Carboniferous and the Late Permian.
- The largest gap in the fossil record is thought to be the evolution from prokaryote to eukaryote cells.
- All of this splitting is to make the human fossil record conform to the fossil record of other groups.
- The early history of pterosaurs is not yet fully understood because of their poor fossil record in the Triassic period.
- Charophytes are prone to calcification and have left an abundant fossil record up to the Cretaceous, and perhaps beyond.
- Charred peat surfaces have been reported in the fossil record but are absent in the K-T peat sequences.
- This type of organism is very rarely preserved in the fossil record.
- Moreover, for this phase of metazoan evolution, the fossil record is extremely poor.
- Their handiwork expands debate over how to identify hominid species in the fossil record.
- The most direct account of our past is inferred from the fossil record.
- Thus their first occurrence in the fossil record is a metric of particular interest.
- It is commonly believed that the fossil record provides the most direct evidence for evolution.
- This bed is highly important because it records the first appearance of organisms with hard parts in the fossil record.
- Bryozoa is the only major phylum that does not have a fossil record in the Cambrian.
- Some paleontologists do study the fossil record of humans and their relatives.
- Actually the real reason there are gaps in the fossil record is because of geological changes over time.
- The Entoprocta is also a small phylum and the oldest fossil record is from the Upper Jurassic.
- The fossil record of emballonurids extends to the late Eocene or early Oligocene.
- Records of interspecies interaction have seldom been preserved in the fossil record.
- All crustaceans first appear in the fossil record in the Paleozoic Era.