Post by 1dave on Jul 9, 2024 9:10:06 GMT -5
The "Fossil Truck Tire" is a giant ammonite fossil that was discovered in 1947 by geologists mapping the coal seams near Fernie, British Columbia. In July 1947 a field crew mapping coal outcrops for the BC Geological Survey were working in a drainage east of Fernie. A student had reported finding a ―fossil truck tire, hence the name. However, geologists soon realized that it was actually an ammonite. A few years later GSC Paleontologist Hans Frebold described and named the fossil as ―Titanites occidentalis” after the large Jurassic aged ammonites found in Dorset, England. The fossils size and nature of preservation prevented it from being moved to a museum, and therefore disallowed one of the requirements when naming a new species. Only latex molds were made of the Coal Creek specimen. Read more here: www.geologyin.com/2023/05/the-fossil-truck-tire.html
