The fossil record is the record of life on earth preserved in rock. the fossil record provides evidence of what types of plant and animals lived, how long they lived, how they died, and how they changed. it also tells us about earth’s early environment and how it changed. the fossil record determine the age of rock formations by looking at how deep the fossils are buried in the rock. when a fossil is found above another fossil in a rock formation, the deeper fossil is considered older.
what can scientists infer about the observation of the fossils now found widely spaced across the globe that actually lived on the same early earth landmass?
a) the dinosaurs carried the fossils
b) early earth was much smaller
c) everything was under water
d) the landmass split apart