Building a Museum for Lightning Ridge's opalised dinosaurs

[Oxytropidoceras 1,895]

Building a home for dinosaur fossils with extra opal bling at Lightning Ridge

By Sally Bryant, Australian Broadcasting, 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2015-02-03/dinosaur-fosssils-with-opal-bling-at-lightning-ridge/6065346

 

A couple of papers are:

 

Meakin, S., 2011. Geodiversity of the Lightning Ridge area 

and implications for geotourism. In Proceedings of the 

Linnean Society of New South Wales (Vol. 132, p. 71). 

https://www.academia.edu/24823750/Geodiversity_of_the_Lightning_Ridge_Area_and_Implications_for_Geotourism

 

Watkins, J.J., Behr, H.J. and Behr, K., 2011. Fossil Microbes in 

Opal from Lightning Ridge: Implications for the Formation of

Opal. Division of Resources and Energy.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6e7a/9d5d30343d24a9efb4c15d37602a32c3b10c.pdf?_ga=2.69785872.1453044388.1578279722-895145303.1578279722

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Fossil-microbes-in-opal-from-Lightning-Ridge-—-for-Behr-Behr/6e7a9d5d30343d24a9efb4c15d37602a32c3b10c

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[Scylla 1,605]

These are some of my favorite fossils ever!