During a recent business trip, Chen Shangbin, director of the Department of Geology at China University of Mining and Technology, found fossil remains on the washbasin in the restroom at Guiyang Airport in Guizhou. After an expert’s identification, these are actually 300 million years old owl head shell fossils.
A Weibo user certified as vice president and curator of the Jiangsu Institute of Geological Survey recently posted that Chen Shangbin found the fossil remains at the time, casually photographed and sent to friends, later stratigraphic paleontology expert Dr. Qian Maiping confirmed that these are 300 million years old owl head shell fossils. According to the description, the fossil owl head shell is “large, sub-circular, biconvex, slightly higher convexity of the ventral flap. The hinge line is short and curved, with a triangular double plate, and the ovoid flesh stem pore is located in the upper part of the triangular plate. The shell surface is smooth. Ventral valve with tall middle plate. Dorsal midplate short. Carapace ring is wide and long”.
It is reported that the owl head shell fossils produced from Guangxi Wuxuan to Xiangzhou area are from a common fossil layer, which has a history of about 390 million years.
In fact, finding fossil traces in daily lives is not rare, for example, in Hong Kong, some expert specializing in paleontological fossils once discovered a large number of marine fossils on a marble-paved brick wall at Sha Tin Station, including extinct prehistoric marine mollusks. It is presumed that the age of the rock layer made of lucite brick wall is more than 100 million years.
Source: dwnews