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Fossils of plants and animals are common in the Green River Formation due to its unique depositional environment during the Eocene epoch, around 50 million years ago. The area was once a series of large lakes with rich biodiversity, where minerals in the sediment facilitated the preservation of organic material. Rapid burial by sediments helped protect remains from decay and scavenging, while the anoxic conditions in the lake bottoms limited decomposition. This combination of factors created an ideal setting for fossilization, resulting in the abundant and diverse fossil record observed today.
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Is the formation of fossils a common event?
No. For fossil formation to take place a series of fortunate events must occur. If any part of the series is missing we will never see the fossil! In fact, fossilization is a fairly rare occurrence. Nature tends toward recycling. That includes just about everything from plants and animals to rocks and minerals.
How does the biogeography of fossils support evolutionary?
Modern plants and animals resemble fossils found in the same area.
What are traces of plants or animals reserved in rock called?
That would be fossils.
Do fossils help us understand past environments?
Yes, because fossils are remains of plants and animals of the past.
What kingdom is fossils?
Fossils belong to the kingdom Animalia, which includes all animals both living and extinct. Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of organisms that lived in the past.
Which effect of weathering is useful to plants and animals?
bwcause it is the formation of fossils
Why do plants and animals do not become fossils?
why do you think many animals and plants did not become fossils
Are fern fossils considered animals?
Fern fossils come from ferns. Ferns are plants, not animals. Hence, fern fossils are plants, not animals.
Is paleontology only about dinosaurs?
No, It includes the study of all plants,animals and fossils from the beginning of rock formation on earth.
Why do most plants and animals do not become fossils?
why do you think many animals and plants did not become fossils
What two things can be made into fossils?
Plants and animals
Can some plants and animals become fossils?
yes!
Is the formation of fossils a common event?
No. For fossil formation to take place a series of fortunate events must occur. If any part of the series is missing we will never see the fossil! In fact, fossilization is a fairly rare occurrence. Nature tends toward recycling. That includes just about everything from plants and animals to rocks and minerals.
What are remains of plants and animals that were buried very quickly in sediment during floods?
fossils
What are traces of plants or animals that have preserved in rock?
Fossils is the word
How does the biogeography of fossils support evolutionary?
Modern plants and animals resemble fossils found in the same area.
What plants and animals can you find in badlands?
lots of fossils and unusual plants and maybe some cacti
