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Fossils that are carbonized or coalified consist of the organic remains which have been reduced primarily to the chemical element carbon. Carbonized fossils consist of a thin film which forms a silhouette of the original organism, and the original organic remains were typically soft tissues. Coalified fossils consist primarily of coal, and the original organic remains were typically woody in composition. Mary Anning". Lyme Regis Museum. Archived from the original on 22 August 2018 . Retrieved 21 August 2018. Types of Imaginary Creatures "Discovered" In Fossils". 19 May 2015. Archived from the original on 16 February 2019 . Retrieved 16 February 2019. Alistair Cameron Crombie (1990). Science, optics, and music in medieval and early modern thought. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp.108–109. ISBN 978-0-907628-79-8. Archived from the original on 17 March 2023 . Retrieved 11 October 2018. When Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, the oldest animal fossils were those from the Cambrian Period, now known to be about 540million years old. He worried about the absence of older fossils because of the implications on the validity of his theories, but he expressed hope that such fossils would be found, noting that: "only a small portion of the world is known with accuracy." Darwin also pondered the sudden appearance of many groups (i.e. phyla) in the oldest known Cambrian fossiliferous strata. [96] After Darwin