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Answer:
Index Fossils
Explanation:
Index fossils are used by scientists to help them figure out the dating of discovered fossils or the correlation. They are also very known to appear in a (very) certain/specific age range.
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No they cant be mechanical because then something would have to generate their rays through the inventing of a machine.