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Is it possible for an entire era of fossil records to be lost due to subduction of a plate and erosion? And could this skew our understanding of the age of life on Earth?
gpt
No. Subduction happens along tectonic plate lines, so you're not going to lose fossils in the center of a plate for billions of years. Plates move slowly. 

Our understanding of the age of the Earth is based on tons of evidence, including radiometric dating and what we know about the formation of the solar system. Even if we had subduction and loss of fossil records ten orders of magnitude more than we do today, we would still have far more evidence than is needed to show the age of the earth as ~4.4 billion years old.