paleonet North African sediment, for everybody involved!

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Xavier Panades I Blas, Ms

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Hi Everybody,

Thank you very much for your unexpected interested in the sediment material. 
I shall remind you that the The North African sediment come from the South 
of Morrocco close to the Argelian frontier, in the Middle of the Sahara 
desert, from an area called ELFOUD.  As I told you before, the crocodile 
fossils embeded in the sediment may belong to the  genera Euthecodon likely 
to be Miocene or Pliocene.
We need somebody interested in studying the pollen, so, anybody interested 
contact me!

After the second round of emails, I have thought about the fairest and most 
scientific useful way to use the material is:

1)	Eduardo Llinas will try to extract some crocodile remains from the soft 
sediment at the University Of Bristol (UK).
2)	The sediment material will be sent to Cornell University (Ithaca) where 
John Chiment’students as a part of the practical will try to collect all the 
microfossils-- mammal teeth, fish parts, etc.--as well as sample the true 
"micro"-fossils--pollen, diatoms, forams, etc. If there are multiples, they 
will keep a few for theirreference collection. But they return the majority 
of materials to the collector.
3)	The fossils will be sent from USA to the scientists interested in the 
material (see the list below).
4)	All scientists have agred that a publication about the age and fauna 
based on these fossil remains will be released. Thus, as soon as the 
material has been studied wholly, please, contact me (the coordinator of 
this mini-project).

Next, I enclose a list of the scientist that will receive the sediment 
material (they answer my second email). ? with a name that needs to be 
confirmed whether the scientist will accept the material. ? without name 
means nobody has still been interested in that material.

Please. All the scientists involved contact Jonh Chiment (jjc1@cornell.edu) 
in the next 3 to 5 weeks to arrange how and where to send the materials.

Please, Raymond Ancog (rayancog@pacific.net.ph) and Jan Kresten Nielsen 
(bioerosion@yahoo.dk), need to contact each other for the study of the Tiny 
trace fossils within larger benthic foraminifers.

Please, in case of anf doubt contact me!

Thank you very much,

Respectfully,


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