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Fossils are a record of life that was captured inside a rock and it was formed whatever shape was inside the fossil. Fossils are a rare thing today they are hard to find. Most things that die lose their formation so we'll never know that they existed. Everythings that gets into a fossil is a record of time even tiny things can be recorded. Not every time something dies it will get captured into a fossils sometimes we'll never know because there will be parts of the fossils that will be missing from it.
Fossil organisms are placed in a genus, species, etc. Owing to the incompleteness of the fossil record, there are about 250,000 species and that is a lot of species that was recorded and that was found not to mention all of the other species

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