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

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either trace fossils or mold fossils or both since both would fit in your description but its probably mold fossils if you dont think so here is a list from enchanted learning

mold fossils (a fossilized impression made in the substrate - a negative image of the organism)

cast fossils (formed when a mold is filled in)

trace fossils = ichnofossils (fossilized nests, gastroliths, burrows, footprints, etc.)

true form fossils (fossils of the actual animal or animal part).

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