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Dear Robert, You may be right. If the photograph is rotated by 180 degrees, the fossil looks more like a sideways scrunched Charnia frond above its holdfast. Cheers, Doug ________________________________________________________________________ On Thursday, October 23, 2003 at 12:00:28 NDT, Doug Boyce <wdb@zeppo.geosurv.gov.nf.ca> wrote: ________________________________________________________________________ Google Search: "oldest vertebrate fossil" "South Australia" http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22oldest+vertebrate+fossil%22+%22South+Australia%22&ie=ISO-88591&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta= ________________________________________________________________________ On Thursday, October 23, 2003 at 13:28:23 NDT, Robert Grantham <robert.grantham@geocentre.ca> wrote: Hi Doug, This is a classic case of an amateur looking at a rock and seeing what he wants to see. It appears to be a composite of ediacaran forms. You can aee spindles, and pizza discs. I see too that no palaeontologist has seen it yet. The story will die its death in the news. - Robert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert G. Grantham Executive Director Johnson GEO CENTRE 175 Signal Hill Rd. St. John's, NL A1A 1B2 (709) 737-7880 (709) 737-7792 - FAX www.geocentre.ca _________________________________________________________________________ -- Mr. W. Douglas Boyce, M.Sc., P.Geo., Provincial Paleontologist, Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador P.O. Box 8700, St. John's, NL, Canada A1B 4J6 Phone: (709) 729-2163 Fax: (709) 729-4270 WWW: http://www.gov.nf.ca/mines&en/geosurvey/aboutus/sections/regional/boyce.stm http://www.geosurv.gov.nf.ca/education/fossils/index.html http://www.canadianrockhound.com/summer97/cr9701301_nfld.html http://www.spnhc.org/documents/fossilprotection.htm _________________________________________________________________________
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