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The phrase "a poorly dated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has an inaccurate or unclear date associated with it, often in contexts like historical documents, events, or artifacts.
Example: "The museum's exhibit featured a poorly dated artifact that left historians puzzled about its true origin."
Alternatives: "an inaccurately dated" or "a badly dated".
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If biased, it should only underestimate the divergence time; in other words, a poorly dated fossil from the Lower Cretaceous might be 130 million years old, but we would recognize it as being "at least 99 million years old".
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Samples were C dated when originating from poorly dated sites or with an insecure stratigraphy (Additional file 1: Table S1).
Discriminant function analysis of titanomagnetites from Mt. Taranaki is used to correlate a set of well-dated tephras from lake cores with comparatively poorly dated eruption units that outcrop on the flanks of the cone.
In addition to archaeointensity data from well-dated archaeological contexts, we obtained reliable archaeointensity results from poorly dated or contentious archaeometallurgical sites in the Southern Levant.
Despite its fame and importance, Lascaux is very poorly dated.
Hitherto, this Late Triassic explosion was poorly constrained and poorly dated.
At present, the great majority of 'Pleistocene' sites remain poorly dated and the understanding of faunal turnover through this epoch is almost non-existent.
The goal is to link the well-constrained marine chronostratigraphy to the poorly dated amalgamated paleosols to better constrain the influence of base level change and climate in the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Western Interior Basin.
New finds were initially very scattered and sporadic, mostly accidental additions that were poorly dated in absolute terms and usually with little or no context (Lewin 1997).
These overlays and heterogeneity often leave conflicting evidence and cause geological events east of the Andes to be poorly dated [ 43, 46].
The up-to-date capers, like "What's New, Pussycat?" and "How to Steal a Million," have dated poorly.
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