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One thing is for sure, you won't find any native dinosaur bones. But there are fossils among the glacially deposited rocks; you can find Ordovician coral, brachiopods, even petrified wood. In the overburden dumps of coal mines you can find a rich variety of Pennsylvanian Age plant life, in particular fern fossils and tree bark. In parts of northern and southern Illinois, areas of marine sedimentary rock are exposed as outcrops. These are rich fields of ancient marine fossils including shark teeth, blastoids, crinoids, formanifera, and even trilobites in certain areas. EDIT: There are several relatively small areas where other sorts Cretacious fossils can be found (near Quincy, Illinois and Far-Southern Illinois). However, it is difficult to find exposed rock in these areas, checking for local quarries/exposed rock areas is the best bet although I have never done this myself. If you CAN get into a quarry in the right area (check a geologic map of illinois) you can possibly find these cretacious fossils--shark/fish teeth, bones of fish/reptillians, rarers items have been found such as peices of dinosaurs but it is doubtful that many will be found. Mazon creek is an easily accessible area for fossils, but it takes patience to find them there--jellfish (boring)...but good finds are fossilized bark, ferns/plants, RARE: fish, Spiders, insects, tully monster, etc...
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What kind of rock are fossils found in?
Igneous rocks.
What kind of rocks are fossils found?
small ones mainly
What group are fossils never found in?
Fossils are never found in Igneous rocks
What kind of fossils are found in South America and South Africa?
it was the Cynognathus. Cynognathus is an extinct mammal-like reptile. The name literally means 'dog jaw'. Cynognathus was as large as a modern wolf and lived during the early to mid Triassic period (250 to 240 million years ago). It is found as fossils only in South Africa and South America.
Are fossils found in sedimentary and metamorphic rocks?
no, fossils are found only in sedimentary rock.
What kind of rock are fossils found in?
Igneous rocks.
What kind of animals can be found in limestones?
fossils
What fossils were found in the badlands Alberta?
Drumheller Alberta- is kind of the central of dinosaur fossils.
What kind of rocks are fossils found?
small ones mainly
What kind of rock are fossils never found in?
Igneous rocks.
Which kind of organism is more like to be found as a fossils is Amber?
Insects.
What kind of dinosaur fossils have been found in south America?
uranis
What kind of plant fossils have been found to prove continental drift and where have they been found?
artic
The kind of rock that you are most likely to find in fossils?
Fossils are most likely to be found in sedimentary rock.
Fossil are found mainly in what kind of rock?
For a variety of reasons, most fossils are found in sedimentary rock.
What kind of mole is found in northern Illinois?
Eastern Mole
What prehistoric animals that lived in Illinois?
Indeed they did. Of course, it wasn't Illinois then, but they walked over the same area of the Earth. Dinosaur fossils aren't much found there now, because the kinds of rocks they fossilized in are mostly out west. You can find fossils in Illinois, but they're found animals and plants that lived before the dinosaurs.
