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Index fossil
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a fossilized organism that is useful for dating and correlating the strata in which it is found, typically indicative of a particular time period in Earth's geological history
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
index fossils
Examples
The trilobite is an index fossil commonly used to date Paleozoic rock layers.
