It wouldn't be a rock it would be bone... made up of calcuim and prob covered in whatever layers of soil it's gone through over millions of years...
Fossils (from Latin fossus, literally "having been dug up") are the mineralized or otherwise preserved remains or traces (such as footprints) of animals, plants, and other organisms. The totality of fossils and their placement in fossiliferous (fossil-containing) rock formations and sedimentary layers (strata) is known as the fossil record. The study of fossils is called paleontology.
Fossil fish of the genus KnightiaFossilization is actually a rare occurrence because most components of formerly-living things tend to decompose relatively quickly following death. In order for an organism to be fossilized, the remains normally need to be covered by sediment as soon as possible. However there are exceptions to this, such as if an organism becomes frozen, desiccated, or comes to rest in an anoxic (oxygen-free) environment such as at the bottom of a lake. There are several different types of fossils and fossilization processes.
Fossils usually consist of traces of the remains of the organism itself. However, fossils may also consist of the marks left behind by the organism while it was alive, such as the footprint or feces of a dinosaur or reptile. These types of fossil are called trace fossils (or ichnofossils) as opposed to body fossils. Finally, past life leaves some markers that cannot be seen but can be detected in the form of chemical signals; these are known as chemical fossils or biomarkers.
Fossil sites with exceptional preservation are known as Lagerstätten. These formations may have resulted from carcass burial in an anoxic environment with minimal bacteria, thus delaying decomposition. Lagerstätten span geological time from the Cambrian. Examples are the Cambrian Maotianshan shales and Burgess Shale, the Devonian Hunsrück Slates, the Jurassic Solnhofen limestone, and the Carboniferous Mazon Creek localities.
The oldest known structured fossils are most likely stromatolites. Now understood to be formed by the entrapment of sediment by mucous-like sheets of cyanobacteria[1], the oldest of these formations dates from 3.5 billion years ago. Even older deposits (3.8 billion years old) of heavy carbon that are indicative of even earlier life are currently proposed as the remains of the earliest known life on Earth.
2006-06-23 17:28:31
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answered by Anonymous
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If it fossilized, it would look like a rock. People have petrified before.
The first link has the science behind petrification.
2006-06-23 17:37:09
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answered by ? 3
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Not rock, but fossilized bone...if it was stepped in mud, then mud around it will, then over time the bones will calcify and become hard as stone
2006-06-23 17:25:58
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answered by back2skewl 5
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oh sure y not!
if you're crazy
definitely it won't
maybe a fossil
that looks like a rock
2006-06-23 18:49:50
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answered by daisy 2
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sure they have been pronounced The Bible calls them the super sea monsters because of the fact they lived by utilising super bodies of water. however the Bible would not difficult on them because of the fact they have no longer something to do with our salvation. basically our interest.
2016-12-09 00:55:15
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answered by ? 4
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