RE: Okamura source (from D. Goodman)

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Neale,

The reference is a self-published book entitled "Period of the Far Eastern
Minicreatures." Citation: The Original Report of the Okamura Fossil
Laboratory, no. 14, July, 1980. It is about 350 pages long. The author studied
metamorphosed Silurian carbonates and recognized not only tetrapods, but also
birds, dragons, plants, lots of other things that I cannot immediately recall,
and, most interesting, several races of "minimen" (and "protominimen") that
are approximately 2mm high! The author suggests that a civilization of small
minicreatures inhabited the earth prior to its present state, or something
along those lines. It is written in both nontechnical Japanese and English and
is profusely illustrated with photographs and line drawings. It is one of the
most bizarre pieces of paleontological literature floating around out there. I
have in my office a framed Text-Figure 7 from this paper in which the author
illustrates that "the grades of evolution of protominiman correspond always
with the metamorphosis of embryo of Recent mankind." It is that strange - a
must read but zero on the science.

Mr. Okamura has also published several shorter papers (Japanese and English)
and another paperback book (in Japanese only). These publications are
difficult to obtain at the present time, according to several colleagues who
have written to Mr. Okamura in recent years, all without success.


Dave Goodman
Arco Alaska, Inc.
Anchorage
dgoodma5@is.arco.com