“So a fossil is always correlated to the era of the strata in which it is embedded”
Wrong.
The shear ignorance of your post astounds me. If “Dino” died by falling into a cravase of older rock, or was burried in an avalanche of much older rock, what do you think the “strata test” would show?
A similar situation was used to “disprove” the archeology/history of the Bible.
Come to find out, the artifacts that were in an “older” layer was simply due to people burying their garbage instead of leaving it out on the ground.
But but but the rocks are all supposed to be the same age as the fossils they are found in therefore the crevasse could not be older than the age the dinosaur was living in.
Otherwise the dating of fossils by the age of the rocks and the dating of the rocks by the type of fossils found in them would be WRONG!
I stand corrected, there is a third possibility: Heads I win, tails you lose, and whether heads or tails you still lose.
You are certainly willing to consider any number of theories about this issue, except, perhaps that you might be wrong.