An animal dies and falls into a river. over time sand, rock, and other material settle on top of the animal remains, completely covering it. what type of rock might form to preserve this fossil? lava igneous metamorphic sedimentary basaltic

the missing space is phylum

for example, no new evidence will demonstrate that the earth does not orbit around the sun (heliocentric theory), or that living things are not made of cells (cell theory), that matter is not composed of atoms, or that the surface of the earth is not divided into solid plates that have moved over geological timescales .