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| a scientist who studies fossils to see what life on Earth was like millions of years ago |
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| the same type of fossil found in the same rock layers all over the world |
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| organisms that lived for a short period of time 400 million years ago that are index fossils |
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| plants and animals that were quickly buried and their shape has been preserved, not the actual plant or animal |
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| scientists can use index fossils to determine the ages of rock |
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