Re: Mystery Fossil

[Ole Andreas Hoel <o.a.hoel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I actally got the message _and_ the attached picture (lucky me). It
looks to me as a fenestrate bryozoan colony, a flat, leaf-shaped colony with
oval holes in it. Colonies of this shape are usually taken to indicate
rather quiet water conditions. 
Our bryozoan expert, Hans Arne Nakrem, says it's probably a _Protoretepora_,
described from the Permian of Australia. He suggests that you contact an
australian bryozoan worker, Robin Wass. His e-mail is:

drwass@ozemail.com.au

Hope this helps

Ole A. Hoel
Paleontologisk Museum
Sars gate 1
N-0562 OSLO
NORWAY

At 22:56 02.09.97 -0700, Monty Grover wrote:
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>Just to change the topic completely, we have found an imprint of a fossil
>dating from between Devonian to Cretaceous in age (I know, that is a
>massive amount of time) and most likely Cretaceous in age which we have not
>been able to identify. 
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>The attached image is at a scale of 1:1 and it occurred in a fine siliceous
>sandstone from the North of Northern Territory, Australia, in a kimberlite
>region.
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>Any suggestions as to order, genus and/or species would be gratefully
>accepted. Answers can be posted here, or sent to me personally if you don't
>like airing your "guesses" out in the open
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>Thanks in advance
>
>Monty
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Ole A. Hoel
Paleontologisk Museum
Sars Gate 1
N-0562 OSLO
NORWAY

E-mail: o.a.hoel@toyen.uio.no