Ancient organisms that lived during closer time periods were more alike than organisms that lived in widely separated time periods. What evidence in the fossil record most directly supports this scientific claim?
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Fossils found in adjacent rock layers are generally more like each other than fossils found in widely spaced layers

Most fossils are dated indirectly, by inference from surrounding rock that has been directly dated

The rocks that fossils are found in can be examined in order to infer what environments certain organisms existed

If the rock layers in a certain location have not been disturbed by tectonic or other movement, the lowest layer was formed before the layers above it.