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Recently took a 2 day trip up to Gingin which is around an hour drive north of Perth and a nice little town. Went with my dad and checked out some Chalk exposures at One Tree Hill and Molecap Hill. The weekend we went just so happened to be in the middle of a heatwave around Perth with temperatures reaching 40 degrees around midday so we had to do the hunting around dawn and dusk. We ended up finding some nice shells, sea urchin spines, cool little gastropods and had a great time. Chalk exposures on the southern wall of the quarry at molecap hill Tiny gastropod fossil (sounds better than worm fossil) in situ on the ground Finds from molecap hill: Inoceramid, unknown shell and some microfossils (gastropods, sea urchin spines and tiny shells) from surface collecting and sifting The only find from One Tree Hill was this nice little shell positive and negative my dad found cracking some (glauconitic?) nodules
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Six new species of Western Australian trilobites discovered
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Six new species of Western Australian trilobites discovered by Patrick Smith, Heidi J. Allen, Australian Museum PhysOrg Article the open access paper is: Smith, P.M. and Allen, H.J., 2023. Early Ordovician trilobites from Barnicarndy 1 stratigraphic well of the southern Canning Basin, Western Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, pp.1-58. Yours, Paul H.-
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Wondering if these were fossils
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Hi is this a fossil picked it up in exmouth western australia some years ago
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Earth’s oldest (Paleoarchean) stromatolites, Western Australia
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
3.5 billion-year-old rock structures are one of the oldest signs of life on Earth By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science, November 10, 2022 Hickman-Lewis, K., Cavalazzi, B., Giannoukos, K., D’ Amico, L., Vrbaski, S., Saccomano, G., Dreossi, D., Tromba, G., Foucher, F., Brownscombe, W. and Smith, C.L., 2022. Advanced two-and three-dimensional insights into Earth’s oldest stromatolites (ca. 3.5 Ga): Prospects for the search for life on Mars. Geology. Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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Hello! The other day I visited a museum here in Perth and noticed they sold fossils in the gift shop. I bought a fossil of an ammonite as a gift for my younger sister, who absolutely loves anything prehistoric. The store gave no information other than it was an ammonite, but having bought it here in Perth I suppose it might well be from Australia at the very least. I apologise for not having more a specific location. If necessary I could send them an email and ask, though from the conversation I had at the store it seemed like the gift store staff weren't particularly well-informed themselves unfortunately. They came "pre-sliced" but I'm not sure if the internal structure helps at all. I also took exact measurements, as instructed. I hope the photos are sharp and well-lit enough! Thank you in advance!
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Leaf fossils in Broome sandstone (early cretaecous) Western Australia
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I was wondering what these leaves are?
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Hi everyone, I was walking today through the bush, and among all the extremely hard edged and flat rocks I saw this one. It honestly could be just a rock... but I couldn’t help but think it was out of place. Any thoughts on what this is?
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Hi. Could I have help with ID on these. they are all from the same small patch beside the road at the eskine range. WA.
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From the album: Miscellaneous
A section of a stromatolite from the Strelley Pool Chert, Western Australia. Currently, these stromatolites are among, if not the oldest known fossils. There is possibly earlier evidence of life in the form of biogenic carbon, but this chert produces the oldest known mineralized preservation of organisms. Of course everyone wants to find the "earliest life," and it becomes difficult to differentiate between microorganisms and geologic structures in rocks so old, so there will always be disagreement and competition. Likely, there are older fossils already found or yet to be, but it requires a large amount of evidence and arguing to form some consensus. From what I've seen, this appears to be the most widely accepted "oldest fossil." Perhaps as (or more) interesting is what we can apply from the debate to searching for evidence of life on other worlds ... More info: "Strelley Pool Chert and Early Life" [NASA] "A Rare Glimpse of Paleoarchean Life: Geobiology of an Exceptionally Preserved Microbial Mat Facies from the 3.4 Ga Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia" [NCBI] "World's Oldest Fossils Found in Ancient Australian Beach" [Science Magazine] "Stromatolite reef from the Early Archaean era of Australia" [Nature] "Controls on development and diversity of Early Archean stromatolites" [PNAS]-
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Hi! I have something that looks very similar, found it on a beach in New Zealand about 30 years ago. Do you know what it is yet?
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Hi everyone, names Lucien Taken up gem stone hunting and fossil hunting in the last year and hope to take up gold prospecting by the end of this year Money permitting haha Always looking for tips and fellow hunters to join me on expeditions... This hobby is a little too nerdy for my mates haha I am obsessed with history, prehistoric, ancient and modern. Hit me up sometime
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Hi all, Was recently on a short break to Rottnest Island in Western Australia and found a bunch of these in the rocks near the beach on the east coast of the island. I thought they looked like giant isopods but have no idea when they are from or if I am remotely close? Any suggestions? Ta Dan
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Meadow of dancing brittle stars shows evolution at work University of Cambridge, August 14, 2017 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170814093417.htm Australian Scientists Just Found A 'Perfectly Preserved' 275 Million Year Old Starfish Fossil, Rae Johnston, Gizmodo https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/08/australian-scientists-just-found-a-perfectly-preserved-275-million-year-old-starfish-fossil/ Starfish the size of dinner plates discovered at Gascoyne Junction, Curtin Uni, West Australian, August 13, 2017 https://thewest.com.au/news/wildlife/starfish-the-size-of-dinner-plates-discovered-at-gascoyne-junction-by-uwa-curtin-uni-researchers-ng-b88567204z The paper is: Aaron W. Hunter and Kenneth J. McNamara. 2017. Prolonged co-existence of “Archaic” and “Modern” Palaeozoic ophiuroids – evidence from the early Permian, Southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14772019.2017.1353549 Yours, Paul
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Oldest evidence of life on land found in 3.48-billion- year-old Australian rocks
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Oldest evidence of life on land found in 3.48-billion- year-old Australian rocks, Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2017-05-oldest-evidence-life-billion-year-old-australian.html Australian Fossils Hint At Where To Search For Life On Mars, Capital Public Radio News http://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=527575457 http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/09/527575457/australian-fossils-hint-at-where-to-search-for-life-on-mars Oldest land-based fossils ever discovered ... The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/oldest-fossils-charles-darwin-origin-of-life-theory-pond-proof-a7726351.html Tara Djokic, Martin J. Van Kranendonk, Kathleen A. Campbell, Malcolm R. Walter & Colin R. Ward, 2017, Earliest signs of life on land preserved in ca. 3.5 Ga hot spring deposits. Nature Communications 8, Article number: 15263 (2017) doi:10.1038/ncomms15263 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15263 Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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Australia's 'Jurassic Park', Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia (Open Access)
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
World’s biggest dinosaur footprint discovered in ‘Australia’s own Jurassic Park’ By Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, March 27, 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/03/27/worlds-biggest-dinosaur-footprint-discovered-in-australias-own-jurassic-park/?utm_term=.fd44d15ca339 Kimberley fossil tracks are Australia's 'Jurassic Park' By Jonathan Amos, BBC Science, March 27, 2017 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39405167 The open access paper is: Salisbury, S.W., Romilio, A., Herne, M.C., Tucker, R.T. and Nair, J.P., 2016. The Dinosaurian Ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 36(sup1), pp.1-152. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2016.1269539 Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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From the album: Cretaceous finds in Western Australia
Both of my Cretaceous Gingin Molecap Greensand (83-?Ma) Gladioserratus sp. Teeth. Gingin, Western Australia. -
From the album: Cretaceous finds in Western Australia
Great little fish vertebra from the Cretaceous Molecap Greensand of Gingin, Western Australia. -
From the album: Cretaceous finds in Western Australia
Several Inoceramus Giant Clam shell fragments and several Sea Urchin spines in matrix. Cretaceous Gingin Chalk. -
From the album: Australian crinoids
The Permian crinoid, Jimbacrinus, from Gascoyne Junction in my home state of Western Australia. -
From the album: Australian crinoids
The Permian crinoid, Jimbacrinus, from Gascoyne Junction in my home state of Western Australia.
