If fossils of a water animal or plant are found in a place then that place used to be covered by water in the past, and common fossils include plant fossils like ferns. Given these facts, fossils are found in places that were previously covered in what among the following options:
- matter
 - earth
 - soils
 - dirt
 - water
 - wetland
 - rocks
 - erosion


 

     water    