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Re: Oldest Known Male Fossil: 425 MYA

To: rtravsky@uwyo.edu, dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Oldest Known Male Fossil: 425 MYA
From: "James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:03:39 -0800
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Richard W. Travsky wrote:

> They removed the rock containing the fossil and then cut extremely thin
> shavings through the remains. Each shaving was then photographed and
> stored in a computer...........
> That, Cronin said, has never been done before for such an ancient animal.

And won't be done again for that particular specimen, because it has
been destroyed.  I hope they don't have a hard-drive failure.

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  - From: "Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>

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