How do footprints get fossilized?

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How are some dinosaur footprints not just completely filled in with rock.

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Footprints are made in sediment like sand or mud then that sediment dries sort of like cement and becomes sedimentary rock. Even if additional layers of sedimentary rock do form overtop of the ones with the footprints, they can still be separated but in some cases we get lucky and no additional layers form in millions of years.

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