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Fossils form in rocks when bones are buried by sediment (sand, soil, etc), and that become compressed by layers above until it turns into stone. Therefor, as sediment becomes rock, it forms in layers. All of a particular layer, thus, formed at the same time. So if dinosaur bones are found in a layer, and other animals and plants are also found in the same layer, then they all lived at the same time.

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