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(biology, geology) The study of the stratigraphic distribution of fossils. quotations
It is these ordinary animals that have helped science cope with the problems of Deep Time […] and it is astonishing that the biostratigraphy based on them doesn’t merit a mention.
2000, Richard Fortey, “No Such Thing as a Fish”, in London Review of Books, volume 22, number 13