Happy New Year everyone

That is a great picture of the two skulls of labyrinthodont
amphibians. Hope there are more finds. The fossilized tree stumps seem
to get bigger maybe one day someone will find a really gigantic one.

Albert


--- In fossilclubgroup@..., "janewlands"
<janewlands@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings
>
> I went into the lab location of the Hobart Museum to see how progress
> was going on the recently excavated Jurassic tree stump... still in
> pieces at this stage, though the discoverer reckons he has found a
> bigger tree four feet in diameter. However with their permission I've
> uploaded to the Miscellaneous photo album an image of an early
> Triassic fossil. It was found in 2006 by bushwalkers on the east
> coast and consists of two skulls of labyrinthodont amphibians that may
> have resembled modern salamanders. Perhaps their waterhole dried up
> which sounds ominous for humans. Another one for the 'must find' list.
>
> John in Tassie
>