Post by inyo on Sept 10, 2016 11:18:31 GMT -5
Not too long ago, I uploaded my latest paleontology-related web page, entitled A Visit To Fossil Valley, Great Basin Desert, Nevada ( inyo2.coffeecup.com/fossilvalley/fossilvalley.html ). Includes detailed text; images of fossils; and on-site photographs, as well. This is a completely non-commerical, personal page.
It's cyber-visit to a world-famous desert district situated in Nevada's Great Basin geomorphic province that contains the most complete, diverse, terrestrial (land-laid) fossil record of Miocene life yet discovered in North America--and perhaps the world, as a matter of fact--a genuinely spectacular paleontological place that produces from the middle Miocene Esmeralda Formation an astounding association of well-preserved fossil material some 16.4 to 10.5 million years old, including: insects and arachnids; plants (leaves, seeds, flowering structures, conifer needles and foliage, diatoms--a microscopic single-celled photosynthesizing aquatic plant that constructed silica "shells"/frustules--pollens, and petrified woods); stromatolitic, cyanobacterial blue-green algal developments; mollusks (gastropods and pelecypods); ostracods (a bilvalve crustacean); plus, mineralized skeletal elements from many species of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and turtles.
