Re: Fish Heads

Glenn Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Mon, 19 Jan 1998 06:14:04 -0600

At 11:21 PM 1/18/98 -0600, bpayne@voyageronline.net wrote:
>Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:29:03 -0800 Arthur V. Chadwick wrote:
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>> Paul sent me the following:
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>> One of my students conducted his MS thesis on this very topic. He studied a
>> number of stratified lakes with finely laminated sediments in New York
>> (Fayetville Green Lake), Minnesota, and elsewhere and found that there
>> were NO fish bones preserved... although these lakes contain abundant
>> fish in the epilimnion. However, Salton Sea, a large desert lake in
>> southern California, does contain abundant fish bones and scales in
>> laminated sediments... and the lake is not stratified!
>
>Interesting. The fish fossils I bought from the Nature Company show not
>only the bones, but also the body and fins. These fish were apparently
>buried intact, not just the bones. Do you know of any modern analogs?
>
>Bill Payne
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There are some excellently preserved fossil fish from the Don River
formation of Ontario. this deposit is less than 10,000 years old.

glenn

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