Re: Ediacaran fossil theft case

[Tatsuo Oji <oji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Chris,

I am just curious if the type specimen of Charniodiscus arboreus has been 
found and returned to Australia.

Tatsuo

oji@geol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp


On Wed, 23 Apr 1997 22:12:51 -0700 (PDT), Chris Nedin 
<cnedin@geology.adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
>Stop Press
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>Perth, Australia
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>After the precedent had been set in the previous trial when one of the
>defendants was found guilty of illegally exporting crinoid specimens out of
>the country, the defendants in the aledged illegal removal and export of
>the type specimen of _Charnodiscus arborius_ from the Flinders Ranges
>National Park, South Australia to Japan, have today pleaded guilty to the
>charges.
>
>Chris
>
>cnedin@geology.adelaide.edu.au                  nedin@ediacara.org
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>Many say it was a mistake to come down from the trees, some say
>the move out of the oceans was a bad idea. Me, I say the stiffening
>of the notochord in the Cambrian was where it all went wrong,
>it was all downhill from there.
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