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How big is the one in the pic?


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Lisbeth wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 2:16 pm How big is the one in the pic?
About 14cm

I will post a few more next week.


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Pectoperis (Seed Fern) nodule
Mazon Creek, Illinois, USA
Carboniferous (roughly 350 mya)
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Wow, that's old! :shock:


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Flutterby wrote: Wed May 29, 2019 9:08 am Wow, that's old!
Not my oldest piece.

I have a Stromatolite that has been dated at around 2.4 billion years old - the Precambian Era. This is the first evidence of life on Earth.
The very early Stromatolites are 3.5 billion years old...give or take.


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There is a museum (Fossil Museum of the Monte San Giorgio) not far from where I live with some incredible findings. It is on a mountain which used to be at the bottom of the sea O:V

UNESCO World Heritage Site of Monte San Giorgio.

The 2.5-meter long reconstruction of the saurian Ticinosuchus welcomes visitors to the fossil museum in the center of the village of Meride. Spread over four floors, the large variety of animals that lived 245 to 180 million years ago in the erstwhile sea and on the coast of southern Ticino are exhibited. Illustrations and models explain to the public the long extinct world whose fossils have been excavated, prepared and scientifically described by Swiss and Italian experts since 1850.

https://www.ticino.ch/en/commons/detail ... /2778.html


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I would like to give the above post a Like ^0^


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