The fossils, paleontologists who have found in Novosibirsk? – Commander

Domestic paleontologists and Novosibirsk have found fossils of unique creatures that lived long before the dinosaurs. Age findings surprised even experienced experts – 400 million years. Also found perfectly preserved specimens and have a lot of unique facts. Scientists are confident that they can be identified and new and found the remains.

Ress office of Novosibirsk State Museum of Local Lore said on Thursday that the discovery in a small quarry shale stone accidentally discovered a researcher at the museum. It is a fossilized remains of marine animals – brachiopods, bryozoans, corals, sea lilies that existed about 400 million years ago, when life is just beginning to enter the land.

In those days most of Western Siberia was the bottom of the Paleo-Asian ocean, life is just beginning to enter the land. The current territory of the Novosibirsk region was badly warmed shallow waters inhabited by bizarre sea creatures: brachiopods, bryozoans, corals and sea lilies. He called the Devonian period, the name he received on behalf of Devon or Devon in southwest England, on whose territory the archeologists have found particularly many ancient geological formation.

Andrew Mugako says: “We have not so rare there are places where Devonian layers come to the surface, in this respect, the quarry is not unique, but I have nothing better in the Novosibirsk region had not met: there is such a variety, perhaps even new species are represented. More precisely it is difficult to say, we have not shown the findings paleontologists. And the quality is great. For example, the well-preserved fossilized brachiopod – an animal with a sink, like a clam – right in my hands opened into two halves. The imprint of this clear, it is possible to consider the entire micro-relief ».

Regional Museum staff say that the fossils are easily accessible, they resemble parts of various alien mechanisms. Petioles crinoids look like old screws with a neat thread.

According to Andrei Mugako, paleontologists may even find a species unknown to science. Most of the finds can be viewed quickly in the fossil collection of the Museum of Nature and condensate field.

Most of the findings in the near future will be exhibited in the Museum of the nature of the fossil, which belongs to the regional museum.

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