The World's Deepest Dinosaur - 2256 Meters Below The Seafloor ( Plateosaurus, Offshore Norway )

[Oxytropidoceras]

It is an old topic, but still interesting.

Oil drillers have struck dinosaur off Norway, the

Research Council of Norway announced this week.

by James Owen, National Geographic News, April 26, 2006

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0426_060426_dinos.html

The World's Deepest Dinosaur Finding –

2256 Metres Below The Seabed, Science Daily,

The Research Council of Norway, April 25, 2006

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060425091449.htm

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/trco-twd042406.php

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/721.php

By the way, a Cretaceous turtle and Ordovician trilobite were

found in separate drill cores in Florida.

In 1955, the Amerada Petroleum Corporation drilled wildcat well

12 miles northwest of Okeechobee, Florida. A well core from

9,210 feet contained the remains of a Cretaceous aquatic turtle.

The core, which was composed of gray argillaceous dolomite,

was 4 3/ 8 inches in diameter, recovered the anterior or front

end of it. Its skull and hind portions were outside the area of

the core (Olson 1965:4).

Further north, A similar chance recovery from a drill core was

made in Madison County, Florida. In 1944, the Hunt Oil Company

recovered drill core from depth of 4,628 feet. It contained a

Middle Ordovician trilobite (Colpocoryphe exsul) (Olson 1965:4).

Olson, S. J., 1965, Vertebrate fossil localities in Florida.

Special Publication no. 12, Florida Geological Survey.

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00000475/00001/1j

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited September 14, 2015 by Oxytropidoceras

[njfossilhunter]

This is a very interesting post.....Thank you for sharing and i'm sure many members will also find this post informative.....

[Rustdee]

A Floridian trilobite. You don't hear that everyday.

Thanks for the info, truly fascinating.

[Oxytropidoceras]

A Floridian trilobite. You don't hear that everyday.

Thanks for the info, truly fascinating.

The paper that describes and illustrates the Florida trilobite is:

Whittington, H. B., 1953, A new Ordovician trilobite

from Florida. Breviora. vol. 17, pp. 1-6

It is at https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_39107_anewordoviciantrilobitefromflo1952

The paper, but without the picture, is also at:

http://biostor.org/reference/biostor/4489

In addition, a Paleocene mammal skull was recovered

from a depth of about 2,460 feet below the surface from

an oil well in Caddo Parish in Junior Oil Company,

Beard No. 1 in Sec. 9, T.18N., R.16W. (Simpson 1932).

See https://web.archive.org/web/20080515014027/http://members.cox.net/pyrophyllite/Paleocene.html

Reference cited:

Simpson, G. G., 1932, A new Paleocene mammal from

a deep well in Louisiana. proceedings of the United States

National Museum, vol. 82, art. 2, pp. 1-4.

https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/16067

https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/16067/USNMP-82_2943_1932.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited September 15, 2015 by Oxytropidoceras