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7/13/2025, 8:13:03 PM
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Depositional environments that preserve remains long enough to fossilize are pretty rare. Think stagnent bogs with no oxygen, shallow seabeds or rivers with relatively fast deposition to bury the materials.
With that in mind if you look at the environment cactuses thrive in it seems very unlikely that we would find one that could make it to the bottom of a bog or seabed without being eaten or decomposed. If something does make it to fossilhood there is no guarentee of its discovery, if the rock where that fossil is was uplifted to the surface like a mountain range, erosion will eventually erase that fossil completely. The sheer volume of geologic data we have is staggering, but the amount of information lost to erosion pales in comparison.
Depositional environments that preserve remains long enough to fossilize are pretty rare. Think stagnent bogs with no oxygen, shallow seabeds or rivers with relatively fast deposition to bury the materials.
With that in mind if you look at the environment cactuses thrive in it seems very unlikely that we would find one that could make it to the bottom of a bog or seabed without being eaten or decomposed. If something does make it to fossilhood there is no guarentee of its discovery, if the rock where that fossil is was uplifted to the surface like a mountain range, erosion will eventually erase that fossil completely. The sheer volume of geologic data we have is staggering, but the amount of information lost to erosion pales in comparison.
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