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Fossils have been used to derive earth history through two fundamentally different kinds of evidence: chronological and spatial. The chronological evidence is biostratigraphical; that is, fossils are one of the most important ways of providing relative ages of strata, and this makes it possible to infer sequences of geological events. These biostratigraphical methods are long established, widely accepted both within and outside palaeontology, and well explained in standard texts. There is no need to discuss them any further here.
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Rosen, B.R. (1988). From fossils to earth history: applied historical biogeography. In: Myers, A.A., Giller, P.S. (eds) Analytical Biogeography. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1199-4_17
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