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A little report from a oxfordien stage in Provence .J go since 1984 its only place who you can find nodules ammonites whith sometime they are minerals likes diamont quartz,calcite,ankerite and petrol.J collecting just fossils.

annother stage of my collecting

A part of my callovien stage collecting

Hi TFF friends, how are you? I walked a little bit today to one of my favorite geological formation here in Japan called the Himenoura formation. The himenoura formation is a late cretaceous (santonian) marine formation. It is divided in three levesl called the lower formation, the middle formation and upper formation (really surprising I guess) and the formation is made of mud stone from the bottom to the upper part of it. Fossil hunter mainly search the lower formation because it is the richest part in fossils of this formation. The lower part is very rich in bivalves, ammonites and vertebrates fossils (sharks [13 species], sea turtles and bony fishes) . The middle formation is less rich in fossils but you can still find some inoceramus, bivalves, few ammonites and some shark tooth ( 2 species). the upper formation has no fossils. I was wondering why the upper formation do not contain fossils. What woud be the cause of this fossil rarefication? Does it mean that all life in this part of ocean gradually vanished or is there another explication? Did evolutionnists lack time when they burried fossils in this formation? Cheers, David