Re: Another Okamura source (from S. Eagar)

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From: Stephen.Eagar@vuw.ac.nz
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 09:56:34 +1200
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The following sounds a bit like history going in cycles!

Remember the eighteenth century Pseudo fossils of Johann Beringer of
Wurzburg. I wonder if Okamura found his name encrypted in the limestone?
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>Chonosuke Okamura, 1980, Period of the Far Eastern minicreatures:  Original
>Report of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory, No. 14, p. 165-346.
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>Okamura reported finding, in thin-sections of the Nagaiwa limestone, a wide
>range of vertebrate remains, including fish, amphibians, reptiles
>(particularly dragons), and mammals (including, among other things, dogs,
>cats, horses, cattle, pigs, and a moose), all on the order of a few mm in
>length.  Particularly interesting are his hominid fossils, divided into
>protominiman and miniman.  The latter are associated with tools,  artifacts,
>and clothing, on the basis of which Okamura analyzes miniman intelligence
>and culture.  The report is profusely illustrated.
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>I'm not making this up.  The report is apparently available in the library
>of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, the source of my
>photocopy.
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>Bob Fleisher
>Chevron USA Production Co.
>P. O. Box 1635
>Houston, TX  77251
>email:  fler@chevron.com
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