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Description: A brief introduction from Deciphering Earth History: A Laboratory Manual.
Gastaldo, Savrda, & Lewis. 1996. : A Laboratory Manual with Internet Exercises . Contemporary Publishing Company of Raleigh, Inc. ISBN 0-89892-139-2 Not every organism that ever lived could become part of the fossil record. If you eat an average of three meals a day, you test and prove this hypothesis daily. A large percentage of all biological entities end up as food for other organisms higher on the food chain. This fact alone may prevents these organisms from being preserved. Even those organisms that avoid being eaten have a low probability of becoming fossilized because most of them undergo decay and recycling of their chemical components. For example, you can examine any forest-floor litter and find that beneath the top layer of leaves, the organic matter has been degraded to an unrecognizable form (humus -- not hummus, the garlic-laden spread served in health-food restaurants). This recycling keeps the carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycles operating. In fact, many taphonomic biases impact the odds of any organism being preserved.
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