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[Tamren]

As of yet we have no fossil layers. But such things are hard to find extract. Being forms of stone dwarves would like such things as rarities. Specifically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammolite

Perhaps an archeologist noble would be in order?

Dinosaur skeletons and the like could also be used to make supervaluable statues. Just search for my taxidermy thread for the details, its around here somewhere...

[AlienChickenPie]

Fossils could be nice.
The game notifies you when you reach a fossil layer Most of it just has some fossilized bones that drop when you dig through, like any ore or gem. Dwarves can use the bones like gems or like normal bones. A fossil layer may contain a complete fossil. If you have an archaeologist noble around, he would want to examine the fossil, and would get some serious unhappy thoughts if the dwarves just dug through it without his supervision. The archaeologist gets to the area, examines the bone and assembles a dinosaur skeleton which counts as a very good statue.
If there's no archaeologist around, or you choose to ignore him, the dug out fossil just leaves behind lots of bones.

[Zurai]

Fossilized bones would be completely worthless for stuff that normal bones are used for; they're rock.

The next version of my Prehistoria mod has fossils, though not entire layers of them and no completely gameplay-changing things like an archaeologist noble. It's got some that are gems (dinosaur fossils and ammonite fossils) and some that are flux stone (dense ammonite fossils, which form calcite).