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This is called a trace fossil. or a mold.

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Are fossils made from rocks?

Fossils are made of rock yes. Most commonly this happens when a living organism (plant or animal) dies and its body is buried in mud before it has a chance to decay. The mud hardens into rock quickly, while the dead body slowly breaks down and leaves behind a hollow impression in the now solid rock around it. This kind of fossil is called a mold fossil, as the hollow remains empty like a jello mold. A cast fossil is when later other mineral rich water fills up the mold eventually turning the hollow into a solid rock of a different kind than the rock around it. Trace fossils are made in the same way but come from things made by a living organism such as footprints or tracks, burrows or nests, eggshells and droppings. These fossils are not of the animal itself but preserve evidence of the animal behavior.


A geologist is studying layers of rock He finds a fossil with an imprint of a shelled animal According to the law of faunal and floral succession what kind of fossil would he most likely find next?

A geologist is studying layers of rock He finds a fossil with an imprint of a shelled animal According to the law of faunal and floral succession what kind of fossil would he most likely find next is a fossil of fishes.


What kind of resources are non-renewable?

Fossil fuels, and anything made from them, uranium and minerals.


What kind of fossil is a arrowhead made thousands of year ago?

Arrowheads are not fossils, they were made by the Native Americans to use on the tips of their arrows.


How are carbon films and preserved remains different?

carbon films can preserve the delicate parts of plants leaves and insects, and preserved remains can preserve entire organisms.

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A kind of fossil where an animal or plant leaves its body impression in the mud?

mold


A kind of fossil were an animal or plant leaves only its body impression in the mud?

A fossil of this type is called an impression fossil. It forms when an organism's body creates an imprint in soft mud or sediment, which then hardens into rock and preserves the shape of the organism but not its actual remains. These fossils provide important information about ancient organisms and their environments.


What is a kind of fossil where an animal or plant leaves only it's body impressions in the mud?

Mold


What is a kind of fossil where a plant or animal leave an impression in the mud?

Full


One kind of fossil forms from the body parts of organisms. What is another kind of fossil?

Another kind of fossil is a mold or cast fossil, which forms when an organism's remains decay and leave an impression in the surrounding sediment that is later filled with minerals. Another type is a trace fossil, which is evidence of an organism's activity, like footprints or burrows, preserved in rock.


What fossil makes an impression in the mud?

foot prints and ammonites mainly, but any kind of organism if it had any contact with mud, under the right condition, it might just becomes a fossil


What kind of fossil is this?

what kind of fossil is what!


If a bird leaves a footprint in the mud the mud hardens what kind of fossil is this?

This would be considered a trace fossil, specifically a "ichnofossil" which is a fossilized footprint, burrow, or other trace left by an organism rather than the remains of the organism itself.


What kind of impression did the society have on witches?

they hated them


What kind of fossil is s a leaf inprint?

i think it would be a trace fossil.


What is a kind of fossil fuel?

coal is a type of fossil fuel hahahhah i think


What kind of animal part leaves the most distinct fossil?

Animal parts that are soft and don't have a skeleton leave the worst imprints. Fossils are made with animal parts that are hard and durable.