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What are three factors that could prevent an organism from long ago from ever turning up in a fossil collection today?

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The organism generally must have hard parts such as shell, bone, teeth, or wood tissue; the remains must escape destruction after death; and the remains must be buried rapidly to stop decomposition.

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