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[skorpion]

Hi Folks

I\'m very new to fossil collecting.
Rather than uploading individual specimens for identification, I have constructed a website to show my small collection.

I hope that you will be able to help me with identification/classification.

I have yet to find my FIRST fossil.

Please help if you can.

Regards

Pete

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/skorpion

[Steph]

Hi Pete,
hello. from where are you?
Your shark tooth on your website is a otodus obliquus from morocco...
Gr

Stephan

[Supergraver]

Hi Pete,

Welcome!

Greetings from Norway!

Martijn

[Fossielenzoeker]

Hi Pete

Nice website !

[skorpion]

HI Folks

Thanks for the welcome.

Thanks for the comment about Otodus, Stephan.

I come from England.

Regards

Pete

[ziepe]

skorpion schreef:
Hi Folks

I\'m very new to fossil collecting.
Rather than uploading individual specimens for identification, I have constructed a website to show my small collection.

I hope that you will be able to help me with identification/classification.

I have yet to find my FIRST fossil.

Please help if you can.

Regards

Pete

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/skorpion

Hi there,
nice site.

Just one thing, on http://homepage.ntlworld.com/skorpion/page9.html, the page with the seed ferm you write: Palaeozoic - Carboniferous - 354 to 290 Ma, the correct timescale should be: 359,2 to 299. Furthermore you mention that the coal measure is \"Westphalian\", this can narrow your timescale too: Westphalian: 315 to 306,5 milion years ago, located in the Mississippian.

*A little sidenote:

In the late 1999 the Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy (SCCS) voted that the terms lower and upper Carboniferous were obsolete and that Pennsylvanian (299-318) and Mississippian (318-359) should be used instead, in order to create a more global terminology. As far as I know the International Commission on Stratigraphy ratified the new Carboniferous classification on september 13, 2005.

http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=SCCS

Carboniferous greetings,
Ziepe



[Bewerkt door ziepe op 17-05-2007 om 00:50 NL]

[skorpion]

Hi Ziepe

Thanks for the corrections and comments.
I\'ll update my website shortly.
I have one or two new items to display.

Regards

Pete

[skorpion]

Hi Folks

Website has been updated.

Pete

[Editted by skorpion on 21-05-2007 at 17:59 GMT +1]

[skorpion]

Hi Folks

Website has been updated.

Pete

[ziepe]

Hey Pete,
what source did you use for your timescale ? Because most of the dates on it are obsolete, inaccurate.

For the latest news on chronostratigraphy and exact dates please check
http://www.stratigraphy.org/geowhen/timeline.html or http://www.stratigraphy.org/

Cheers,
Z.