Meaning of fossil record | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The collective record of biological development that is reflected in the fossilized remains of organisms through geological history.
2. The record of preserved evidence for a single species or taxon.

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Examples

“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.”

“Trilobites have an extensive fossil record.”

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