What are the types of fossils?

Answer 1

molds and casts, trace fossils, petrified wood, and carbon film
The four types of fossils are mold fossils, cast fossils, true-form fossils, and trace fossils. Mold fossils are impressions from when the plant or animal first decomposed. Cast fossils are plant or animal remains. True-form fossils are remaining body parts from an animal. Trace fossils are marks that have been left by animal, such as footprints.

Answer 2

There are several types of fossils, including:

1. Mold fossils: Impressions of an organism in rock.
2. Cast fossils: Formed when a mold is filled with minerals and hardens into a replica of the organism.
3. Petrified fossils: Organisms that have been replaced by minerals, turning them into rock.
4. Trace fossils: Evidence of an organism's activity, such as footprints or burrows.

Answer 3

There are four different types of fossils I know, there are cast fossils, trace fossils, mold fossils, and body fossils.

There is also that kind of fossil that has ants, Spiders, etc. trapped in amber.

Answer 4

There are five diffferent means of preservation that create fossils. They are:

1. Permineralization

2. Casts and molds

3. Replacement and recrystallization

4. caronization

5. Original material

Answer 5

Palaeontologists, people who study fossils, divide them into two major types - body fossils and trace fossils.

The first type, body fossils, are the fossilised remains of an animal or plant, like bones, shells and leaves. These can be mould and cast fossils, like most of the fossilised dinosaur skeletons and big bones we see, replacement fossils, like petrified wood, or whole body fossils - mammoths caught in ice, or insects trapped in amber.

The second type of fossil records the activity of an animal. Known as trace fossils, these include footprints, trackways, and coprolites (fossil poo!).

Answer 6

Fossils can be put into two categories; fossilized body parts, and ichnofossils (fossilized traces). The types of fossils are mold, cast, trace and true form.

Answer 7

the different kinds of fossils are mold fossils, cast fossils, trace fossils, body fossils, and petrified fossils -joshua peddicord

Answer 8

The 3 main types of fossils are..........................

1. Original remains

2. Trace fossils

3. Petrified fossils

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