Well, you can’t get fossils from rocks which have melted or metamorphised. If you try you might get lucky and find some relatively unscathed sediments, but I do

Well, you can’t get fossils from rocks which have melted or metamorphised. If you try you might get lucky and find some relatively unscathed sediments, but I don’t know enough geology to say for sure how much of the plate would have escaped metamorphism.