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What types of stones are most likely to contain fossils?

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What types of stones are most likely to contain fossils?

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Any sedimentary rock can contain fossils, but some make fossil hunting easier. Shales and mudstones are particularly good; chalk is pretty much entirely made of fossils – it’s formed of skeletons of small organisms, but its difficult to see the individual fossils.