tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post162609891299277546..comments2023-12-24T07:02:43.274+08:00Comments on Catalogue of Organisms: The Writing in the RocksChristopher Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11075565866351612441noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-51218308629475746062007-10-24T20:16:00.000+08:002007-10-24T20:16:00.000+08:00I have only seen a very few examples of fossil gra...I have only seen a very few examples of fossil graptolites in the rock, as it were, but I can quite easily believe the story. The ones I saw didn't look like much more than scratches in the rock.Christopher Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11075565866351612441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-39692687371999488502007-10-24T16:49:00.000+08:002007-10-24T16:49:00.000+08:00An urban legend circulates frequently around my ol...An urban legend circulates frequently around my old geology department. A couple of years before I became an undergrad (it's always "a couple of years" isn't it?), the class were on a field trip in the Lake District and northern Yorkshire Dales, which is nicely Ordovician/Silurian and graptolite-tastic.<BR/><BR/>Allegedly, one of the young gentlemen drew a fake graptolite on a piece of slate with a pencil and handed it to Barrie Rickards (who has devoted his entire life to the little buggers), who apparently got all excited and thought he might get a paper out of it as a new species.<BR/><BR/>I have never quite forgiven graptolites for not appearing in my supposedly graptolitic geological mapping area of the northern Lake District. I mapped those slates for six weeks and there were at least some where cleavage was parallel to bedding!Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695173188736074202noreply@blogger.com