#lagerstatten — Public Fediverse posts
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"All told, the graveyard extends 745 miles (1,200 kilometers) along the sea floor. The researchers found at least five active whale falls...also documented 476 fossilized whales, and of the 25 collected samples that could be dated, the most ancient was about 5.3 million years old. That suggests that whales have fostered this unique deep-sea ecosystem for at least that long." https://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-just-discovered-a-5-million-year-old-whale-necropolis-in-the-deep-sea-2000769050 re: #DeepTime #Lagerstätten
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Studien zufolge könnte es gewaltige #Lagerstätten an natürlichem #Wasserstoff im Untergrund geben. Inzwischen spekulieren manche #Bohrfirmen gar auf einen echten #Wasserstoffrausch
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#NewPaper #Paleontology #Lagerstatten
Botting, J.P., Muir, L.A., Pates, S. et al. A Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Castle Bank, Wales (UK). Nat Ecol Evol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02038-4
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 13
#TerrestrialTuesday#BritishColumbia is full of #lagerstätten (sites of exceptional #fossil #preservation), including the sites of the #Eocene #Okanagan. Here, a series of #ancient #lakes preserve #fossils of #leaves, #insects, and the oldest #salmon. Rarest of all are #arachnids: this fossil of the #spider Palaeoperenethis thaleri in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is the only one of its kind, but it's #preserved well enough to identify it as a relative of fishing #spiders