The ‘Solnhofen Limestone’ beds of the Southern Franconian Alb, Bavaria, southern Germany, have for centuries yielded important pterosaur specimens, most notably of the genera Pterodactylus and Rhamphorhynchus. Here we describe a new genus of non-pterodactyloid pterosaur based on an extremely well preserved fossil of a young juvenile: Bellubrunnus rothgaengeri (gen. et sp. nov.). Methodology/Principal Findings […]
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A New Non-Pterodactyloid Pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Southern Germany
February 25th, 2013 
Riffin Stratigraphy and the Principles of Relative Dating
February 23rd, 2013 Riffin Relative dating falls under the sub-discipline of geology known as stratigraphy. Stratigraphy is the science of rock strata, or layers. Layering occurs in sedimentary rocks as they accumulate through time, so rock layers hold the key to deciphering the succession of historical events in Earth’s past. The fundamental principles of stratigraphy are deceptively simple and […]
Collection of Jerry Bastedo And Collegues from Penn Dixie paleontological site
February 22nd, 2013 Riffin 
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No Comments »Living” molecules found in fossil
February 22nd, 2013 Riffin “Living” molecules, meaning intact cellular structures that haven’t fossilized, were recently retrieved from 350-million-year-old remains of aquatic sea creatures uncovered in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, according to a study that will appear in the March issue of the journal Geology. The animals- crinoids– were spindly and had feathered arms. Their relatives today are called by […]
First Known Feeding Trace of the Eocene Bottom-Dwelling Fish Notogoneus osculus and Its Paleontological Significance
February 21st, 2013 Riffin Background The Green River Formation (early Eocene, about 42–53 Ma) at and near Fossil Butte National Monument in Wyoming, USA, is world famous for its exquisitely preserved freshwater teleost fish in the former Fossil Lake. Nonetheless, trace fossils attributed to fish interacting with the lake bottom are apparently rare, and have not been associated directly […]
Fossil from China Cast Evolution in New Light
February 21st, 2013 Riffin Strange fossils, including some that could be predecessors to modern animals, found in China shed new light on the evolution of large, complex organisms, and indicate that they may have diversified earlier than thought. Researchers believe that the rocks containing these fossils, found in southern Anhui Provence, date between 635 million and 580 million years […]
WFS and Transect Consortia conducts an Earth Science Exhibition For Students.
February 20th, 2013 Riffin
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Earth Science Exhibition, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Transect, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Fossil egg found in Spain
February 17th, 2013 Riffin Washington: A new type of dinosaur egg discovered in Lleida, Spain, represents proof in favour of the hypothesis that non avian theropods, the dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period, and birds could have had a common ancestor. Before her death in December 2010, Nieves Lopez Martínez, palaeontologist of the Complutense University of Madrid, was working on […]
TRANSECT CONSORTIA, India: A consortium of field Practitioners in Earth Science
February 16th, 2013 Riffin The transect is a non-profitable [NGO] scientific society intended to give the students in Earth science some firsthand experience in working on the Earth – acquiring raw data and training to approach the complexities and historical depth of geological phenomena with a liberal, open and unbiased spirit leading to better career and knowhow on problems […]
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February 16th, 2013 Riffin A previously unknown mass extinction of plants occurred around a million years ago in the southeast corner of Australia, an analysis of fossilised leaves shows. The findings, by Australian researchers, helps explain a spectacular but mysterious diversity of sclerophyll plants elsewhere – in Australia’s southwest region. Australian Research Council Fellow Dr Kale Sniderman, of the […]
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