Organisms with soft bodies decay long before they can be fossilized.
Fossilization
Fossils are formed from the remains of plants or animals.
The soft parts of organisms decay or decompose while the hard parts have the tendency to fossilized.
The soft parts of organisms are acted upon by microbes. They extracellularly digest the materials and absorb the digested materials as their own food.
The remaining materials either become soil organic matter or become fossilized and preserved in the soil.
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