Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / February 2010

For sale: Primate leg bone fossil of 290 million years ago
--An interesting item on Ebay (the link is at bottom of this post)

Origin: Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA.

Conditions when found: Found in-situ and articulated to the
surrounding slate, which had been excavated from a coal mine of
Shenandoah and dumped in coal waste dumping area of Shenandoah (note
1).

Age: at least 290 million years old, according to the document "Coal
in Pennsylvania" published by Pennsylvania Department of Conservation
and Natural Resource (note 2). On the other hand, the youngest rock of
Pennsylvania is deposited 165 million years ago, according to
Pennsylvania's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (note
3).

Fossil ID: part of a primate's leg bone of at least 290 million years
old (note 4).

Fossil dimension: 22 cm long, 3.3 cm in diameter at midshaft.

Note 1: See Gallery photo for statement from a polygraph test passed
by its discoverer.

Note 2: See Gallery photo for official age of "Coal in Pennsylvania".

Note 3: Quoted from an official website article on Pennsylvania rock
ages, published by Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources.

Note 4: The identification of the fossil is made in the conclusion of
a detailed study. The report of the study is not published on the web
and will not be available to anyone except the person who has actually
placed a bid on this fossil

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