fossil recordnoun [ C or S ]
uk/ˌfɒs.əl ˈrek.ɔːd//ˌfɑː.səl ˈrek.ɚd/the fossils in a particular group of rocks that give information about how and when those rocks formed, or the set of all fossils together that can be used to tell the history of the earth
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Palaeontology & fossils
- ammonite
- ammonoid
- carbon dating
- fossil
- fossilize
- fossilized
- index fossil
- microfossil
- missing link
- palaeontology
- paleontology
- petrify
- radiocarbon dating
Examples from literature
- Our only reason for supposing the evolution of life, made plain by fossil records, to have taken place very slowly is that geologists have stated that the deposition of the strata took place very slowly.
- This fossil record has given us our best knowledge of the course by which the present living world has been brought into its existing condition.