It seems to me this data could be used to correlate a species/genus to a location if one knows where the samples came from. If one also knows the date of the ge

It seems to me this data could be used to correlate a species/genus to a location if one knows where the samples came from. If one also knows the date of the geological strata the samples came from, then one also has a date correlation. A particular animal at a site at some time seems like information a researcher can use.