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OpenStudy (proheiper):

• What is the name of an impression formed when tiny plants or animals become trapped between sediment layers?

OpenStudy (proheiper):

I thought it was a fossil or an imprint fossil

OpenStudy (biologicalscience):

fossils shells is the term

OpenStudy (proheiper):

?

OpenStudy (jadeishere):

Yeah, it's a fossil shell, typically found in casts left by a fossil itself. A cast is where the find the DNA of the animal, and how they trace it to adaptation/evolving animals

OpenStudy (biologicalscience):

so why didn't you put fossils?

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