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


"Aidan Karley" <doIlookDAFTenoughTOpost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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

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

I've never had to resort to using a backhoe to collect fossils, but have
used one to collect minerals. I've had several instances where some
colleagues and I were collcting fossils on a road cut near a factory, and
had security people tell us that we were trespassing and had to leave. I
was always the one who was brave enough to point out that we were
collecting on a state highway right-of-way, and that they had no authority
to tell us to leave. Unless it is a state trooper telling us to leave,
that usually works, and they leave us to our business. If a state trooper
tells us to leave, there's no question. We pack our bags and depart,
pronto!

George


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