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9 unusual facts about Fossil


Fossil-fuel power station

James Hansen in an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama has advocated a "moratorium and phase-out of coal plants that do not capture and store CO2".

Fossil, Inc.

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Hexanchiformes

Fossil sharks that were apparently very similar to modern sevengill species are known from Jurassic specimens.

Iniopterygiformes

Fossils of them have been found in Montana, Indiana, Illinois, and Nebraska.

Owl's Hill Nature Center

Fossil traces in Ordovician limestone and 300-year-old giant trees, vestiges of the great eastern deciduous forest that once covered Tennessee, are important collections on the site, as are pioneer trees and seasonal wildflowers.

SmallBASIC

SmallBASIC runs even on Palm OS wristwatches made by Fossil, Inc.

St. Joseph's School, Bhagalpur

A Fossil Garden, a Herbal Garden, an Aquatic Garden and a Greenhouse are on the campus.

Tashkömür

Fossils of dinosaurs and dinosaur eggs have been discovered in the area, and paleontologists have speculated that once the area was used by dinosaurs to lay their eggs.

Taza

Fossil remains indicate that caves in the area were inhabited as early as the Paleolithic Period.


Aurorazhdarcho

In 1999 amateur paleontologist Peter Katschmekat uncovered a fossil of a pterosaur in the Blumenberg Quarry, three kilometres northwest of Eichstätt, in layers of the Solnhofen limestone.

Australopithecus afarensis

The most famous fossil is the partial skeleton named Lucy (3.2 million years old) found by Donald Johanson and colleagues, who, in celebration of their find, repeatedly played the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Baltimartyria

The first known fossil was originally studied and described by Hans Rebel of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria.

Barrandov Studios

The area was to be called Barrandov after Joachim Barrande, the French geologist who had worked at the fossil-rich site in the 19th century.

Branchiocaris

This fossil appears on TV show 'The Simpsons', chapter: 'Lisa, the sceptic', behind the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (Wonderful Life's author).

Caddisfly

Fossil caddisfly have been found in rocks dating back to the Triassic.

Cascoplecia

George Poinar, Jr., who described this fossil, coined a new family name for it – Cascopleciidae.

Cerithium madreporicola

The true Cerithium madreporicola is a fossil species known only from raised Quaternary reefs in the Red Sea.

Cerro de los Batallones

Cerro de los Batallones (Hill of the Battalions) is a hill at Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain where a number of fossil sites from the Upper Miocene (MN10) have been found.

Cole Museum of Zoology

Specimens include a male Indian circus elephant skeleton, a 5 metre Reticulated Python skeleton containing 400 vertebrae, a fossil of the largest spider to ever have lived, and a False Killer Whale skeleton.

Dinosaur Footprints

These tracks were fossilized and largely hidden until many were unearthed by the construction of what is now U.S. Route 5.

Dissacus

The fossil record of this species is fragmentary; remains in Cernay, France, include a mandible, a complete radius, and fragments of a humerus.

Dwarf elephant

Fossil remains of dwarf elephants have been found on the Mediterranean islands of Cyprus, Malta (at Ghar Dalam), Crete (in Nomos Chanion at Vamos, Stylos and in a now under water cave on the coast), Sicily, Sardinia, the Cyclades Islands and the Dodecanese Islands.

Edward Oscar Ulrich

Ulrich was a prolific writer, publishing numerous pamphlets on the subject of American paleontology, treating particularly the fossil Bryozoa, Gastropoda, Ostracoda, and Pelecypoda.

Eozoon canadense

John William Dawson (1865) described the banded structures of coarsely crystalline calcite and serpentine as a gigantic Foraminifera, making it the oldest known fossil.

Eucommia rolandii

The other fossil is marked as specimen SFU 14748, and is part of the collections at Simon Fraser University.

Field River

In 1992 the fossil remains of the world's largest marsupial - the Diprotodon - were discovered on the bank of the river by Trevor Westlake ( a founding committee member of the Friends of the Lower Field River).

Haywards Heath RFC

They run a 4th Team called "The Dinos" named after the dinosaur fossil discovered by Gideon Mantell on what is now their playing fields.

Helix of sustainability

If a litter lout throws a crop origin biodegradable article on the ground, it will ultimately biodegrade into humus, water, and non-fossil CO2.

Ichthyovenator

The fossil was found in 2010 in the Grès supérieurs Formation of the Savannakhet Basin in Savannakhet Province, in a layer which is likely Aptian in age.

Icterid

Prehistoric icterid genera that have been described from Pleistocene fossil remains are Pandanaris from Rancho La Brea

Las Hoyas

Las Hoyas Formation has been studied for more than two decades by researchers from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the National University of Distance Education, in collaboration with the Museo de las Ciencias de Castilla-La Mancha, which is responsible for the fossil record from the area.

LaVell Edwards Stadium

Part of the largest collection of Jurassic period fossils in North America, housed at BYU, was stored underneath the east bleachers of the stadium until 2005.

Limhamn

The Paleocene bird Scaniornis was described from fossil bones aged some 60 million years or more, which were found in the Limnhamn limestone; it was apparently a waterbird and might have been an early flamingo relative.

Little Foot

In 1994 while searching through museum boxes labelled 'Cercopithecoids' containing fossil fragments, paleoanthropologist Ronald J. Clarke identified several that were unmistakably hominin.

Makoshika State Park

In 1997, a fossil Thescelosaurus was found at Makoshika by an expedition led by Jack Horner and Bob Harmon.

Meganeura

Fossils were discovered in the French Stephanian Coal Measures of Commentry in 1880.

Miniopterus tao

In 1934, Chinese paleontologist C.C. Young was the first to describe fossil bats from the fossil site of Zhoukoudian Locality 1, which is famous for Peking Man.

Montealtosuchus

This fossil, which was found in 2004, near the town of Monte Alto, in San Paulo state is very well preserved and quite complete.

Myrmecophagidae

The fossil Eurotamandua from the Messel Pit in Germany may be an early anteater, but its status is currently debated.

Palaeochenoides

The first fossil assigned to it – a distal right femur piece – was found near the source of the Stono River in Charleston County, South Carolina (USA).

Palaeocybe

The genus is monotypic, containing the single fossil species Palaeocybe striata, which was found in Tertiary amber in Saxony, Germany.

Paleontological Research Institution

PRI is affiliated with Cornell University, houses one of the largest fossil collections in North America, and publishes, among other things, the oldest journal of paleontology in the western hemisphere, Bulletins of American Paleontology.

Parvigrus

The remains of Parvigrus pohli have been described from fossils found in Vachères in France, from rocks from the Lower Oligocene.

Peștera cu Oase

This mosaic of Neanderthal and modern human resembles similar traits found in a 25,000 years old fossil of a child in Abrigo do Lagar Velho or in the 31,000 years old site of Mladeč, by Cidália Duarte, et al. (1999).

Petrel

However, recent research and fossil finds such as Vegavis show that the Galliformes (Pheasants, Grouse and relatives), and Anseriformes (ducks, geese) are still not fully resolved.

Pristomyrmex rasnitsyni

Pristomyrmex rasnitsyni is known from a solitary fossil, the holotype, specimen number 1.ii.1969, which is currently in the collections of the University of Copenhagen.

Purussaurus

During the summer of 2005, a Franco-Peruvian expedition (the Fitzcarrald expedition) found new fossils of Purussaurus in the Peruvian Amazon (600 km from Lima).

Rhinodoras

Rhinodoras has been identified in the fossil record from the late Miocene Urumaco Formation (about 9 million years of age), Falcón State, Venezuela.

Richmond, Queensland

Richmond has a public library, golf course, bowling club, swimming facilities, race course, caravan park, tourist information centre and a fossil museum named Kronosaurus Korner.

Scapanops

The fossil, now housed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, was discovered by American paleontologist Alfred Romer on April 15, 1950 and was first mentioned in the scientific literature by paleontologist Robert L. Carroll in 1964.

Seguenzia monocingulata

It was originally described by Seguenza in fossil form during the Miocene in Calabria and during the Pliocene in Sicily.

Semisulcospira

"野尻湖層産カワニナ胎児殼化石について : 現生カワニナとの比較研究 "On the fossil embryonic shell of Semisulcospira libertina (GOULD) (Mesogastropoda: Pleuroceridae) from the latest Pleistocene Nojiri-ko Formation, Nagano Prefecture, Central Japan: A comparative study of recent and fossil Semisulcospira".

Simocetus

Simocetus is known from a single fossil, a skull, found in marine siltstone deposits of the Alsea Formation on the banks of Oregon's Yaquina River in 1977 by fossil hunter of the region, Douglas Emlong.

Spengler's freshwater mussel

Czech Republic - only fossil records in layers with settlement from neolite: Ďáblice, Kobylisy, Roztoky, Podbaba.

Stenopelix

In 1855, in a sandstone quarry near Bückeburg on the Harrl heights, a fossil was found of a small dinosaur.

Tunnels of Gibraltar

The formation appears to have been laid down in a tropical environment somewhat similar to the Bahamas today, and on the basis of fossil evidence an Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) age has been proposed for the Gibraltar Limestone, though in appearance it has a strong resemblance to the Carboniferous Limestone that underlies large parts of England and Wales.

Turfanosuchus

In 2001, Xiao-Chun Wu (of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing) and Anthony Russell (of the University of Calgary) redescribed the fossil.

Turritella communis

Fossil and subfossil shells of Turritella communis have been found in interglacial strata in the North Sea, from the Late Pliocene to the Quaternary Period.


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