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Well, it depends on how much detail you want. Carbon-dating is actually very accurate to within a few thousand years. This sounds like a long time to us, but when you are talking about a fossil that is millions of years old, a few thousand years is nothing. Of course, you can't say that a fossil has been in the ground since 1:27pm, Monday 5th June, 34,050,389 BC, but considering the time scales involved, we can date fossils pretty accurately.
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∙ 8y agoNo. It is possible to date a fossil with reasonable certainty. We can generally narrow the focus to at least within 5% of the time away from the present, e.g. If a fossil is around 100 million years old, we can date it to between 95-105 million years old, but the exact year is unknown (which would be absolute certainty). However, we can say with relative certainty that it is within that 95-105 million year old period, so it is reasonably certain how old it is.
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