Re: Dinosaurian pseudofossils in Iran

["Fabio Dalla Vecchia" <fabdalla@tin.it>]

That story seems absurd and scarcely reliable.
Seven years ago, Majid Mirzaie Ataabadi (an Iranian vertebrate 
paleontologist) then at the University of Esfahan, Alex Kellner of the UFRJ 
(Brazil) and me organized field work in Iran searching for dinosaur remains. 
Alex, Helder (a Brazilian preparator) and me were officially invited in Iran 
by the Ministry of Culture or Mines or something like that. Many 
paleontologists works in the departments of Geology of the Iranian 
universities and the Geological Survey of Iran is a powerful institution. We 
found and studied  dinosaur footprints and the first dinosaur bones (and a 
tooth) ever found in the country. The richest area is in the SW (Kerman 
Province), where the continental Mesozoic crops out. The new had a large 
impact in the country and was spread by the mass media. If you can read 
Farsi, I can send you the pdf of the paper published on Geosciences (the 
journal of the Ministry of Industries-Geological Survey of Iran) and 
dedicated to our finds. Many young men and women are interested on dinosaurs 
in Iran, much more than you can suppose. At that time, there was a journal 
devoted to the spreading of paleontological information among interested 
people, Parineh. Of course, Tertiary mammals and Paleozoic conodonts are by 
far much common there than dinosaurs, thus mammal and conodont specialists 
are more numerous than dinosaur specialists.
Just to tell the truth, without any hidden political intent.

Fabio

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Chure" <danchure@easilink.com>
To: "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 5:11 AM
Subject: Dinosaurian pseudofossils in Iran


> A news story about what is almost certainly concretions, but the
> discoverer's experience with reporting the find to the powers that be in
> Iran is interesting:
>
> http://www.iranian.com/main/2010/jan/discovery-ramsar
>
> Dan


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