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What term is used to refer to all of the fossil specimens that have ever been collected and are now housed in museums, colleges, universities, and private collections around the world?

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The fossil record is the term used to refer to all of the fossil specimens that have ever been collected and are now housed in museums, colleges, universities, and private collections around the world.

The preserved remains, or traces of remains, of extinct animals are called fossils. The remains of the organism itself are not fossils. They're stones. A full organism or only a portion of one can be preserved as a fossil. Leaves, feathers, shells, bones, and shells can all turn into fossils.

Paleontologists, archaeologists, and geologists use the fossil record to put significant occurrences and species in the right geologic epoch. It is based on the Law of Superposition, according to which the lower layers of undisturbed rock sequences are older than the upper levels.

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