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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 22, 2016 5:31:32 GMT -5
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Post by Joe Botting on Feb 23, 2016 5:38:30 GMT -5
Thanks Peter! This was one of the ones I've had to keep quiet about, as we agreed not to do anything else until this paper was out. It's a very nice fauna: sparse, but surprisingly rich. The problem is that the rock is very hard, and the sediment was deposited rapidly, in a low-oxygen environment... so it takes forever to actually collect much! It was only when the trench went in that it became possible to really get a feel for what was in it. I should say that the credit for this discovery goes entirely to Ced Conolly, an amateur living a few minutes' walk from the quarry. He's spent 30 years working on this site, and it was only the sheer diligence that resulted in these discoveries. The first we knew of it was when he sent us a photo of the xenopod while we were in China. I seem to recall that we spent the next ten minutes bouncing around the office, saying, "Woohoo!" All those years puzzling over why we weren't getting this sort of arthropod preserved in Wales, and then someone else goes and finds it in deep water.  |
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 24, 2016 12:04:12 GMT -5
Wonderful Joe !!!
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 24, 2016 12:06:56 GMT -5
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Post by ammocarbsteve on Feb 27, 2016 4:42:17 GMT -5
Congratulations on the publication Joe & Lucy....
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Post by reighan on Feb 27, 2016 13:20:40 GMT -5
Congratulations!
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