Fossilisation is rare, so ....

"If fossilisation is rare, and occurs only in very
limited/particular environmental circumstances,
how can one explain the large numbers of fossils found
unless they have been being deposited over a very, very
long period of time ? "
--Burry them in a short period of time. Silly! ------------------

"JM: That was a no-brainer. I think the question was poorly worded "
--I had to do alot of research to answer that one. Peter may have been going for something else. Peter?------------------

"JM: Not only that, but in the midst of the flood (Jurassic), we have beetles boring through dinosaur bones that were just dead and lying around. They were lying on the surface long enough to feed two generations of beetles. That is to say nothing of fossilized bees and termites and the development of Mesozoic soil ecosystems on land!CheersJoe Meertref:
Hasiotis, S. 2000. The invertebrate invasion and evolution of mesozoic soil ecosystems: the ichnofossil record of ecological innovations, Paleon. Soc. Pap., v 6, 141-169Hasiotis and Fiorello, 1999. Preliminary report on borings in Jurassic dinosaur bones: evidence for invertebrate-vertebrate interactions, Utah Geol. Surv, Misc Publ. 99-1, 193-200."
--Might there be an online reference of some sort for this, sounds interesting, though unfortunately my spectrum of accessible texts is limited. (more directly, the boreholes)------------------

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