[NHCOLL-L:2119] Discovery of Oldest Vertebrate Fossil Claimed in South Australia

[William Douglas Boyce]

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
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On  Thursday, October 23, 2003 at 12:00:28 NDT, Doug Boyce 
<wdb at zeppo.geosurv.gov.nf.ca> wrote:

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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=
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On Thursday, October 23, 2003 at 13:28:23 NDT, Robert Grantham 
<robert.grantham at 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


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	http://www.spnhc.org/documents/fossilprotection.htm
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