Re: Extinction and other...

[Raymond Ancog <rayancog@pacific.net.ph>]

João Simões Lopes Filho wrote:

>Madagascar has ever been a striking mystery to me. There's no fossil
between Cretaceous and Pleistocene. So, we know nothing about it! Lemurs,
tenrecs and viverrids are descendants of African island-hoppers, but
there's no trace of a former fauna.
>India is alike. No fossil between Cretaceous and Miocene.

How do we know that Madagascar and India really have such gaps in their
fossil records, and that this is not a simple case of lack of
investigation/discovery?

Raymond Thaddeus C. Ancog
Mines and Geosciences Bureau
Philippines