Re: Why purchasing cultured granite for your kitchen counters helps conserve fossils

["vilandra@austin.rr.com" <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

Limestone kitchen counters?  Uh-uh!   I don't think so!  Don't tell me 
someone has actually suggested such a thing!

Yours,
Villandra Thorsdottir
Austin, Texas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Chure" <danchure@easilink.com>
To: "vrtpaleo" <VRTPALEO@usc.edu>; "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 9:21 AM
Subject: Why purchasing cultured granite for your kitchen counters helps 
conserve fossils


> The remains of a new species of metriorhychid crocodylomorph, Neptunidraco 
> ammoniticus, have been discovered in limestone slabs slated to become 
> kitchen counter tops.  Paper to be published soon in Gondwana Research. In 
> the meantime, a news story, with photo of slabs, can be seen at
>
> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101230-new-prehistoric-crocodile-science-paleontology/
>
> Dan