"Liverworts, fungi" is inductive sleight-of-hand. Supposedly, Liverworts and fungi are at the low end of evolutionary development so, supposedly, their presence in the stratigraphic column indicates that a sediment is old.
Prototaxites /ˌproʊtoʊˈtæksᵻˌtiːz/
The enigmatic fossil Prototaxites /ˌproʊtoʊˈtæksᵻˌtiːz/ shows us how THE NARRATIVE forces "scientists" to dream up nonsense (inductive reasoning). It's a pinnacle in scientific blindness.
