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Remarkable fossils
Topic Started: Mar 15 2018, 06:19 AM (397 Views)
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For posting interesting/rare fossils. For example, opalized fossils, Amber fossils, etc.
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Speaking of opalised fossils, here are two Australian plesiosaur fossils.

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First is this fossil, named Eric. He's an Umoonasaurus demoscyllus and was discovered by an opal miner in the outback town of Coober Pedy (which I have been to several times) in 1987. He is one of the most complete opalised fossils in the world, and became part of the fossil collection of the Australian Museum in 1993 after money to purchase the specimen was raised by the schoolchildren of Australia (for fear they would loose the fossil to international buyers).

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Here's another less famous opalised plesiosaur fossil, known as the Addyman Plesiosaur. The species isn't specified. It was found in an opal mine in Andamooka in 1968, and like the previous fossil is one of the best opalised fossils in the world (although not as complete as Eric). I know this fossil well, as it is on display in the Eromanga Sea exhibit at my local museum, the South Australian Museum, which I visit regularly. That photo shows it in its display.

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Probably another opal fossil worth mentioning while I'm here is this Steropodon galmani jawbone. Pretty cool to have an opalised monotreme, right?

There are a lot of other opalised fossils from Australia, it's the opal capital of the world after all. But those are my favourites
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Just to point it, you copied the link of the preview that gives google of the site to which that image belongs, so the image doesnt work properly.
To be able to put the image, you have to copy the URL of the image itself so you have to go directly to the site, right click the image and press Copy image URL.

Here is the actual image of the broken image link
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Fresh off the presses is Ascendonanus, a new arboreal varanopid pelycosaur known from five specimens with impeccable preservation of the articulated skeleton and soft-tissues that form a life-like halo around the skeletons. They show that early synapsids had a regular covering of scales, including some especially prominent ones around the tail and are the first good sources of soft-tissue from early synapsid evolution.

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I'm going to be honest, I saw that yesterday and thought. "Oh neat, but, we have monitor lizards now, so we know what they looked like anyway.", not realizing that this was a mammal-like reptile, not a lizard.

Good to finally have a good fossil basis from which to start reconstructing these animals.
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I feel like it's plausible that we could find Melanosomes from this fossil it's so well preserved looking
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