But you just said two things:
1. Fossilation allows us to recover fossils.
2. Fossilation is not normative.
Surely you are lucky to find fossils, in resin, mud, stone, even ice (not even fossilised but more or less fresh) and not assume the find is the norm, but actually exceptional?
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