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What kind of fossil is made when a creature is buried under sediment and as that sediment forms into rock the hard materials like bones of the organism are formed into the rock?

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Mold fossil

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It's called a mold fossil because they are formed when sediments bury an organism and then the sediments are changed into rock; then the organism decays thereby leaving a cavity in the shape of the organism

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