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Limestone is a term for rock made primarily from Calcium Carbonate. When marine animals and plants die, their bodies disintegrate and rest on the floor of waterbeds. Their bodies break down into Calcium Carbonate gradually and limestone is created as a result of this break down of organic matter.

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no. limestone wouldn't "harden" around the lipids in a decaying animal ther for woundnt be there. limestone, if it did, would crush it so hard you wouldn't e able to see a fossil in it and it would become greasy from the lipids that are relaxed in the animals cells. (fat)

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Yes! In short, it is because marine organisms make their home out of calcite which eventually forms into limestone and when the organisms die, some fragments of the fossil stay in the limestone!

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Some Limestone is entirely composed of fossil evidence, though what is visibly seen as a 'fossil' (e.g. a shell fragment etc.) also occur, but nonetheless, some limestones are composed entirely of ancient hard parts (shells etc.). Chalk is composed entirely of Coccoliths, which are microscopic shells. Oolitic limestone, however, is not a fossil rock, but does often contain fossils.

Coal is a fossil rock as it is composed entirely of ancient plant material.

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Yes, shells, skeletons, of mostly tiny creatures and corals could be probably found in some of its layers.

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Yes you will find fossils in sedimentary rock.

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Nope :)

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