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chronocline (s) (noun), chronoclines (pl)
In paleontology, a time series of fossils showing small changes in successive representatives of a taxon: A chronocline is a gradual change in a character or group of characters, as a species, over an extended period of geological time.

A chronocline can also be explained as a gradient of morphologic changes in a taxonomic group through time as found in a series of fossil-bearing strata.

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