The smallest bone in the body is the stapes and it is the third bone of the three ossicles in the middle ear.
I don't know if this helps or not but you would want to know the age of the rock (absolute dating) and from there you will be able to know the age of the fossil and what caused it to die.
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For example, the Milky Way galaxy is some 100,000 light-years across, and our closest galactic neighbor, Andromeda, is some 2.5 million light-years away. In other words, it takes light 2.5 million years just to travel from our galaxy to the one that is right next to us.
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