>If anyone is willing to play the game. Lets play the index fossil game. A
>lot depends on them and surprizingly I can't seem to find a book telling me
>how index fossils are assigned.
>
>There doesn't seem to be any rules.
>
>Can anyone help?
>
I can't, but I certainly would be interested in learning something about
this subject. I haven't really heard very much about index fossils from
paleontologists. Usually when I hear the term it comes from a creationist
who has problems with index fossils. So my first question is, do
paleontologists even use the term "index fossil" very much? Somehow "index
fossil" calls to my mind a list of a few fossils that paleontologists have
agreed are reliable daters of geological strata. But I suspect my
understanding needs to be supplemented.
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