Now, let’s look at the column itself. This map illustrates the land masses of the earth. In white are the land areas where all the periods of the Paleozoic era is found. Notice that there are just some small areas. The “column” is more like a quilt, with patches of different types of fossils.
J. Woodmorappe, The Essential Nonexistence of the Evolutionary-Uniformitarian Geologic Column: A Quantitative Assessment, Creation Research Quarterly, Volume 18, Number 1, June 1981, pg.60