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The 156 pages that link to Fossil, each with the reason it gives.

• LimestoneRelated: Fossils in limestone often record the organisms that supplied its sediment.

• HomininRelated: Most extinct hominins are known chiefly from fossil evidence.

• Sedimentary rockRelated: Fossils commonly survive in sedimentary layers and provide evidence of past life.

• PaleobiogeographyRelated: Fossil locations provide the primary evidence for ancient geographic ranges.

• ChelicerataRelated: Fossils provide the main evidence for extinct chelicerate diversity and early evolution.

• CambrianRelated: Fossils provide the primary record for reconstructing Cambrian organisms and ecosystems.

• Deep timeRelated: Fossils identify past life and help correlate rock layers across regions.

• Relative datingRelated: Fossils provide biological markers for ordering and correlating rock layers.

• Rock cycleRelated: Sediment burial and lithification can preserve remains during rock formation.

• PancrustaceaRelated: Fossils document extinct pancrustaceans and help calibrate evolutionary timelines.

• PteranodonRelated: Nearly everything known about Pteranodon comes from fossilized bones and their geological context.

• PasseriformesRelated: Passerine fossils help date the order's diversification and geographic spread.

• Field geologyRelated: Fossils can help identify strata and constrain their relative ages.

• Homo nalediRelated: The species is known through skeletal fossils rather than living populations.

• UlmusRelated: Fossil elms help trace the genus’s history and changing distribution.

• Jurassic CoastRelated: Fossils in the cliffs and beaches help identify the ages and ancient environments of the strata.

• Sedimentary faciesRelated: Fossil assemblages can identify ecological conditions and distinguish biologically different facies.

• White Cliffs of DoverRelated: Marine fossils in the chalk preserve evidence of the sea in which it formed.

• Sahelanthropus tchadensisRelated: The species is known through fossil remains rather than living populations.

• EomaiaRelated: The exceptional preservation of Eomaia makes its anatomy unusually accessible.

• MagnoliaRelated: Fossil flowers and pollen help place magnolia relatives in deep time.

• VaranidaeRelated: Fossils provide evidence for extinct monitor relatives and the family's changing range.

• Homo rudolfensisRelated: The species is known chiefly through fossilized bones and teeth.

• OxyaenidaeRelated: Fossil teeth and skeletal remains provide the primary evidence for oxyaenids.

• History of lifeRelated: Fossils preserve direct evidence of organisms and their activities across geological time.

• IguanidaeRelated: Fossils help establish the antiquity and former distribution of iguanid lineages.

• LiopleurodonRelated: Fragmentary Liopleurodon fossils limit confidence about its full anatomy and maximum size.

• AmphicyonidaeRelated: Fossil remains provide the anatomical evidence used to recognize and study amphicyonids.

• Ardipithecus kadabbaRelated: Kadabba is known through a small, fragmentary fossil sample.

• Crystal Palace DinosaursRelated: Fossil bones supplied the evidence Hawkins and Owen used to reconstruct bodies.

• GigantopithecusRelated: Teeth and jaw fragments are the principal fossils documenting Gigantopithecus.

• Cave hyenaRelated: Fossil bones provide the main evidence for cave hyena anatomy and range.

• MawsoniaRelated: Mawsonia is known chiefly through fossil remains preserved in sedimentary rocks.

• MetriorhynchidaeRelated: Metriorhynchid anatomy and diversity are known through fossil remains.

• ShonisaurusRelated: Fossils provide the evidence for Shonisaurus’s size, anatomy, and distribution.

• PteraspisRelated: Pteraspis is known through fossilized armor and other remains.

• TeleocerasRelated: Teleoceras is known through fossil remains that reveal its anatomy and distribution.

• Geologic recordRelated: Fossils document past life and help correlate rock layers.

• Incertae sedisRelated: Fragmentary fossils can be difficult to place within established groups.

• KinnekulleRelated: Marine fossils in the hill’s sedimentary rocks record its ancient seafloor origins.

• MadtsoiidaeRelated: Fossils provide the anatomical and chronological evidence for madtsoiid snakes.

• MegalictisRelated: Megalictis is known through fossil remains rather than living observations.

• OdobenocetopsRelated: The genus is known from fossil material rather than living observations.

• PhalangiotarbidaRelated: Fossils provide the evidence for recognizing this extinct order.

• Phylogenetics of flowering plantsRelated: Fossils add extinct lineages and temporal evidence absent from living species.

• SciadopitysRelated: Fossils document relatives of Sciadopitys beyond its modern Japanese range.

• StethacanthusRelated: Fossilized fin and skeletal material underpins the genus's distinctive reconstruction.

• SulidaeRelated: Fossils help establish how long gannet and booby lineages have existed.

• TeleosauridaeRelated: Fossils provide the anatomical evidence used to identify teleosaurids.

• VoayRelated: Voay is known through fossil remains rather than living observations.