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What is an index fossil

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An index fossil is widely distributed fossil, of narrow range in time, regarded ascharacteristic of a given geological formation, used especially indetermining the age of related formations. Hope this helps !
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A fossil that is useful for dating and correlating the strata in which it is found.
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