Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Western Giant

Palcoprep is involved in an interesting project...  We are preparing a mold of the second largest ammonite ever discovered in Canada.  An ammonite is a spiral sea creature related to modern squid and octopus.  This 150 million year old specimen, dating back to the Jurassic period, was found in a coal mine in Sparwood, British Columbia.  It presently resides at a museum on Vancouver Island.  The actual fossil is too heavy for public display so we have been contracted to prepare a cast of the original, to be displayed in the Courtenay Museum.  See the full story, as reported by Philip Round of the Comox Valley Echo at...
www.canada.com/Western+Giant+emerge+from+museum+shadows/3368002/story.html

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