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The fossil record: a negative, at true size

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WHAT THE GROUND HAS YIELDED

Nothing from this ground is in the fossil record reached: no named fossil locality, no collected specimen, no survey entry ties a fossil yield to the townsite, to Lincoln Township's sections, or to the marsh reach of the Kankakee in any source this section could reach — the same county negative the Osceola and Granger legs printed for their ground, and printed here at the same size rather than inflated with the state's general record. What a fuller record would require is stated plainly: the Indiana Geological Survey's locality files and the university collections' accession records, neither open to this build at item level; both are named as the settling sources in this build's note. The drift is this ground's only archive, and on this reach it has not been read at specimen strength. The negative stands as the finding.

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Source: The fossil record: a negative, at true size, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/before-walkerton/fossil-record-a-negative-at-true-size/