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The 57 pages that link to Biostratigraphy, each with the reason it gives.

• FossilRelated: Distinct fossil assemblages let geologists match strata across distant locations.

• PaleontologyRelated: Fossil distributions help establish the relative ages of rock layers.

• Fossil recordRelated: Fossil successions let geologists compare strata across distant regions.

• Geologic time scaleRelated: Fossil appearances and disappearances help distinguish many time intervals.

• EoceneRelated: Distinctive Eocene fossils help identify and compare strata across regions.

• PaleoecologyRelated: Fossil ages help align ecological changes with geological time.

• PaleobiologyRelated: Fossil distributions help place rocks in relative chronological order.

• FossilizationRelated: Changes in fossil assemblages help identify and compare rock strata.

• PaleobotanyRelated: Plant fossils help establish the ages and correlations of sedimentary strata.

• PaleogeographyRelated: Fossil distributions help correlate distant deposits and infer former connections between regions.

• JurassicRelated: Fossil succession helps correlate Jurassic strata across distant regions.

• Trace fossilRelated: Some trace-fossil assemblages help correlate strata, especially where body fossils are scarce.

• Late TriassicRelated: Fossil assemblages help distinguish Late Triassic rocks from older and younger strata.

• AmmoniteRelated: Ammonite succession helps geologists divide and correlate Mesozoic marine strata.

• Jehol BiotaRelated: Fossil distributions help correlate Jehol deposits whose ages and boundaries remain debated.

• William SmithNarrower topic: Smith used fossil assemblages to distinguish and trace strata across different locations.

• NeogeneRelated: Neogene fossils help correlate strata and refine regional geological timelines.

• PaleoceanographyRelated: Fossil succession helps correlate marine sediment sequences across ocean basins.

• Vertebrate paleontologyRelated: Vertebrate fossils can identify and correlate geological layers.

• Late JurassicRelated: Fossil successions help correlate Late Jurassic strata across regions.

• MagnetostratigraphyCompared with: Fossil zones can independently check or refine correlations based on magnetic polarity.

• TrilobiteRelated: Rapidly changing trilobite species help correlate Cambrian and Ordovician strata.

• Index fossilNarrower topic: Index fossils are the principal tools biostratigraphy uses to match strata.

• Relative datingRelated: Fossil succession lets geologists compare strata across separated locations.

• Early JurassicRelated: Index fossils help divide and correlate Early Jurassic strata.

• Gastropod shellRelated: Distinctive fossil gastropod shells can help characterize and correlate sedimentary strata.

• GlossopterisRelated: Glossopteris fossils help identify and correlate Permian strata in Gondwana.

• LystrosaurusRelated: Lystrosaurus-rich strata help geologists correlate Early Triassic deposits across regions.

• Chinle FormationRelated: Changing interpretations of Chinle fossils affect regional age assignments.

• ChronostratigraphyRelated: Fossil succession helps correlate strata and locate boundaries in time.

• Peking ManRelated: Faunal changes in Zhoukoudian layers help constrain the fossils’ ages.

• LithostratigraphyCompared with: Fossil distributions, rather than lithology alone, define its principal units.

• Stratigraphic correlationRelated: Fossil assemblages, especially short-lived index fossils, link strata across distant basins.

• Absolute datingRelated: Fossil succession provides relative ages when direct numerical dating is unavailable.

• Deep Sea Drilling ProjectRelated: Fossils in recovered sediments helped determine their ages.

• Paris BasinRelated: Fossil assemblages help distinguish and correlate the basin’s strata.

• Plant fossilRelated: Pollen assemblages can help correlate sediment layers across locations.

• Global Boundary Stratotype Section and PointRelated: Fossil appearances often identify and correlate the event chosen at a GSSP.

• Lystrosaurus Assemblage ZoneRelated: It provides the method by which the zone is identified and compared across regions.

• Niobrara FormationRelated: Fossils help correlate Niobrara strata across widely separated outcrops and cores.

• PaleoenvironmentRelated: Fossil succession helps correlate layers that preserve environmental records.

• Middle TriassicRelated: Fossil succession helps identify Middle Triassic strata where dates are otherwise uncertain.

• Monte San GiorgioRelated: Characteristic fossils help place Monte San Giorgio beds within the Middle Triassic succession.

• North American land mammal ageNarrower topic: Land mammal ages are biostratigraphic units defined through fossil occurrence and succession.

• History of paleontologyBroader topic: Fossil succession turned specimens into tools for reconstructing geological time.

• MicropaleontologyRelated: Microfossil appearances and disappearances help correlate distant rock sequences.

• Stratigraphic unitBroader topic: Fossil assemblages distinguish biostratigraphic units within rock sequences.

• PaleolimnologyRelated: Fossil succession helps organize biological evidence through sediment sequences.

• Yuanmou ManRelated: Associated animal fossils help constrain the age of Yuanmou's fossil-bearing layers.

• BelemnitidaNarrower topic: Changes in belemnite species help distinguish and correlate Mesozoic marine strata.