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Why purchasing cultured granite for your kitchen counters helps conserve fossils

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Subject: Why purchasing cultured granite for your kitchen counters helps conserve fossils
From: Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:21:19 -0700
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The remains of a new species of metriorhychid crocodylomorph,Neptunidraco ammoniticus, have been discovered in limestone slabs slatedto become kitchen counter tops. Paper to be published soon in GondwanaResearch. In the meantime, a news story, with photo of slabs, can beseen at


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101230-new-prehistoric-crocodile-science-paleontology/

Dan

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