Faunal succession, or the Law of Faunal
Succession, refers to the sequence of life-forms observed
in the geological record. The law states that fossil organisms
(fauna and flora) succeed one another in a definite and recognizable
order, and that each formation on the Earth preserves
a different portion of the history of life than the formations
above and below it. The succession of life records a sequence
of changes in life on Earth that have been used to demonstrate
that evolution records a series of one-way changes in
organisms in that once a species disappears from the record,
it never appears again.
See also EVOLUTION; PALEONTOLOGY.
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