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The organisms that are usually fossilized
by replacement are what?

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when the original shell or bone dissolves away and is replaced by a different mineral; when this occurs with permineralization, it is called petrification. In compression, the most common form of fossilization of leaves and ferns, a dark imprint of the fossil remains.

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