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The vast majority of visible fossils are marine invertebrates, animals that live in the sea and have no backbone, mostly animals with a hard outer shell. This would include clams, coral, brachiopods, ammonites, and other animals familiar to us, as well as extinct animals like trilobites and crinoids. In some locations the deposits are dominated by fish fossils and more rarely insects.
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∙ 13y agoAlmost all fossils are found in sedimentary rock.
Only rarely do you find fossils in igneous rocks such as when cooling lava envelopes a tree trunk. The fossils that you might find in metamorphic rock are so distorted from pressure and temperature that they are usually unrecognizable. Some fossils result from petrification where leaching minerals replace the organic matter and some fossils form when tree sap (amber) envelopes the organism.
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Are fossils found in sedimentary and metamorphic rocks?
no, fossils are found only in sedimentary rock.
Which type of rock is where fossils are found?
They are mostly found in Sedimentary Rocks
Fossils are most likely found in what rock?
No. They are usually found in sedimentary rock.
Most fossils are found and what type of rock?
Sedimentary
Why are fossils not found in other kinds of rock except sedimentary rock?
Sedimentary rock is when a fossil is found inside it.
Type of rock in which most fossils are found?
Sedimentary rock is where we look for fossils.
Are fossils found in sedimentary and metamorphic rocks?
no, fossils are found only in sedimentary rock.
What type of rocks have fossils found in them?
Fossils are nearly always found in some type of sedimentary rock. Limestone is a sedimentary rock which very commonly contains fossils, as is coal.
The kind of rock that you are most likely to find in fossils?
Fossils are most likely to be found in sedimentary rock.
Which type of rock is where fossils are found?
They are mostly found in Sedimentary Rocks
Fossils are most likely found in what rock?
No. They are usually found in sedimentary rock.
Fossils are usually found in?
sedimentary rock
Most fossils are found and what type of rock?
Sedimentary
Why are fossils not found in other kinds of rock except sedimentary rock?
Sedimentary rock is when a fossil is found inside it.
What sedimentary rock often has fossils?
Paleontologists are looking for fossils in sedimentary rock.
Are fossils found in sedimentary rock?
Yes.
Are fossils found in the sedimentary rock?
yes
