Well, the grass-marks-on-dunes fossils I've never heard of before.
I can envision these types of delicate fossil imprints occuring only if the sand contained water and some sort of curing agent...sort of like how concrete works. Otherwise, it seems like the mark would quickly disappear.
Not necessary. They just need something to cover the sand (or whatever) without disturbing the marks, and then compression and heat to turn sand to sandstone and the covering material to another bit of rock.
You could have something like volcanic ash cover the site and then turn to rock above the sand while capturing the imprint even though the sand gets {washed\blown\eroded} away afterward.
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