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| rock layers on top of one another |
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| when separate strata are shown to be connected laterally |
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| Sediments are added to a location |
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| the movement of continental plates. |
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| the use of fossil organisms to date rock. |
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| Anapsida, synapsida, diapsida |
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| the three types of amniotic skulls |
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| = the clade of reptile that dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodilians are directly nested in. |
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| 37. Divergent adaptations |
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| the term for what happens to species due to geographic and genetic separation. |
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| uses maps of bone-beds to understand burial and preservation processes. |
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| a geologic feature like Devil’s Tower that intrudes into preexisting strata |
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| a graphic representation of nested taxonomic groupings of organisms that are mathematically quantified |
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| is the term for the simplest of cladograms or the cladograms with the least steps. |
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| One random aspect of evolutionary change |
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| A non-random aspect of evolutionary change. |
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| From the lithification of sediments |
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