I started with Fossil Records because, well, I like fossils. Trouble is I only got a few paragraphs down before I got fed up with it. Why? Because it was so full of errors and faulty premises and logical inaccuracies that a child could spot there seemed very little point in reading the rest.
The author seemed to be having trouble with there being no trilobites and lobsters together in the fossil record during the Cambrian era and wondering why, if they lived together are they not fossilised together.
His actual question was...
"Why would creatures that would seem to share the same general environment while alive be so widely separated in the fossil record if they did indeed live at the same time and in pretty much the same location?"
The answer is because they didn't live during the same time. Trilobites appeared during the Cambrian and Lobsters appeared during the Cretaceous. What's so hard to understand about that?
The author seemed to be having trouble with there being no trilobites and lobsters together in the fossil record during the Cambrian era and wondering why, if they lived together are they not fossilised together.
His actual question was...
"Why would creatures that would seem to share the same general environment while alive be so widely separated in the fossil record if they did indeed live at the same time and in pretty much the same location?"
The answer is because they didn't live during the same time. Trilobites appeared during the Cambrian and Lobsters appeared during the Cretaceous. What's so hard to understand about that?
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