Re: Fossil Fish With "Limbs" Is Missing Link, Study Says

In article <jyQ2g.699080$084.48542@attbi_s22>, George wrote:
The insects. Yes, they're there. Early-Devonian for sure, just up
the path from my colleague Peter's house. Search on "Rhynie Chert fauna".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhynie_chert

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Aidan Karley, FGS
Aberdeen, Scotland,
Location: 57°10'11" N, 02°08'43" W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233

Interesting. Thanks for the link, Aidan.

If you want to go digging, then you actually need permission from (a)
a government agency several hundred miles away and (b) the farmer who owns
the land. And the farmer is likely to refer such requests to his neighbour,
Dr. Pete. Nothing like living on the land for controlling visitors.
Having walked and driven up the track many times, there's nothing to
see. You *do* need a JCB (US-Eng = backhoe ??) to get through the glacier
excrement.
The fossils in this unit tend to the hand-lens, if not the
microscopic. A hour NNE is another well-known lagerstatte [note 1] of fish
fossils in an anoxic horizon of the Orcadian lake. Better known and bigger
fossils means a bigger problem.

[note 1] (sorry, German typers)
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Aidan Karley, FGS
Aberdeen, Scotland,
Location: 57°10'11" N, 02°08'43" W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233

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