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Why is a trace fossil a fossil?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Well, fossils are the remains of any organisms that were once alive preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock form. Trace fossils are geological records of biological activity. Trace fossils may be impressions made on the substrate by an organism: for example, burrows, borings (bioerosion), urolites (erosion caused by evacuation of liquid wastes), footprints and feeding marks, and root cavities. So trace fossils can basically be in rock, or fossil in this case, formation.

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