Researchers uncovering fossils at the fossil site in 1951 before its location was initially lost.Image credit: Ferraz et al
Posted on 06/26/2022 10:47:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Scientists have finally rediscovered a lost fossil site in Brazil, after the researchers who originally discovered it 70 years ago were unable to retrace their steps to the remote location...
The rediscovered site, which is known as Cerro Chato, is located near Brazil’s border with Uruguay in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. Around 260 million years ago, towards the end of the Permian period (299 million to 251 million years ago) conditions at the site were ideal for trapping and preserving dead organisms. As a result, multiple rocky layers at Cerro Chato are chock-full of delicate fossils — especially plants, which typically do not fossilize as well as animals do because they lack hard parts.
Paleontologists who first discovered Cerro Chato in 1951 were excited by its exceptionally well-preserved Permian remains. Unfortunately, without memorable landmarks or modern technologies, such as GPS, the researchers were unable to accurately record the exact geographical coordinates of the site, and when they attempted to return to the Permian treasure trove they could not find it. After several attempts to retrace their steps, the team gave up the search and declared the site lost. However, a new group of researchers took up the mantle and successfully found the lost location in 2019...
To date, more than 100 fossils — mostly plants, along with some fish and molluscs — have been uncovered at Cerro Chato by the original team and by the co-authors of the new study. Some of the fossilized plants are ancestors of modern-day conifers and ferns, the researchers reported.
However, the new team suspects that these fossils are just the tip of the iceberg.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Researchers uncovering fossils at the fossil site in 1951 before its location was initially lost.Image credit: Ferraz et al
All they need to do is post the coordinates from the GPS online.
Permian is boring...
ICWYDT, but didn’t biden, et al. stop Permian boring?
The end of the trilobites.
Does Al Gore know about this...
The Salad Days!
Yes - and how I miss them so...
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I wonder if Bill released his Chakra.
Wot, they never heard of the sextant? The theodolite? The astrolabe? Kite string?
The problem wasn't that the right technology didn't yet exist, the problem was that the scope of their knowledge was too limited, particularly for someone whose job it was to explore past the edge of the map and discover stuff.
They had that photograph of the site.
“...Unfortunately, without memorable landmarks or modern technologies, such as GPS, the researchers were unable to accurately record the exact geographical coordinates of the site,...
Wot, they never heard of the sextant? The theodolite? The astrolabe? Kite string?
The problem wasn’t that the right technology didn’t yet exist, the problem was that the scope of their knowledge was too limited, particularly for someone whose job it was to explore past the edge of the map and discover stuff.
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I can understand if it was an underwater shipwreck site and it shifted, but here ?
But since they got lost in the Jungle probably this is a good place to post an Anaconda Video
Coincidentally, it was also the site of some dynamite weed, no?.................
LOL!
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