• AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
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    28 days ago

    There are different types of fossils, some of which apply to soft tissue:

    • Impression: A shallow imprint of a fossil organism that does not retain any organic material.

    • Compression: A fossil that has been crushed or flattened but retains some organic material, although it has been chemically altered.

    • Carbonization: A process that occurs during fossilization in which complex organic molecules are converted into a more stable carbon compound that generally has a dark brown color.

    This appears to be an impression fossil.

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      27 days ago

      I’ll add that the entire organism can fossilize in an anoxic environment with rapid burial.