Who would have thought that an airport toilet washstand would have hundreds of millions of years old fossils?
On the 28th, "Guiyang Airport toilet sink is full of fossils" on the hot search, some netizens lamented that the toilet marble was so luxurious, and some netizens were curious about whether they had found a priceless treasure.
On April 26, @Rainmonkey, vice president and director of the Jiangsu Institute of Geological Survey, said that when Chen Shangbin, director of the Department of Geology of China University of Mining and Technology, was on a business trip, he found fossil debris on the sink slab at The toilet of Guiyang Longdongbao Airport, and casually photographed the circle of friends.
On April 27, the world of @Rainmonkey published another article saying that after Dr. Qian Maiping consulted and exchanged with Shen Shuzhong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a professor of the Academy of Geosciences of Nanjing University, the appraisal conclusion was corrected to paraconchidium shiqianensis Rong, Xu, Fang et Yang 439 million years ago.
"Because Guizhou's pseudo-house Liangbei is scattered and broken, it is cut into building plates for sale, while Guangxi's owl shell is well preserved and can be sold as an ornamental fossil, and the value is much more expensive than the shell of the quasi-house!"
In this regard, the reporter interviewed Shen Shuzhong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of the Academy of Geological Sciences of Nanjing University. He said that the fossil plate of the guiyang longdongbao airport toilet is a five-room shellfish, about 440 million years ago, and is a fossil species designated by Academician Rong Jiayu of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1974. This fossil is commonly found in Places such as Zunyi in Shiquan, Meitan, Northeast Qiandong, and is a product of marine shallow water storm sedimentation.
"Hundreds of millions of years of fossils" make netizens feel extremely precious, but according to Shen Shuzhong, this fossil is very common, and the subfloor of the National Centre for the Performing Arts uses stone with this fossil.
Previously, experts identified it as a fossil of the Owl head shell (Stringocephalus owl shell) about 390 million years ago. Shen Shuzhong said that it is very common for hotels and bathrooms to contain fossils in stone, and the fossils of owl shellfish are often visible and belong to the perforated shellfish, while the shell shells belong to the five-room shellfish, which are two different orders, and the times are different.
In the crowded airport toilet, there are actually hundreds of millions of years ago fossils, which shocked many netizens, who thought it was a pattern on the stone slab, but did not expect that it was a trace of ancient organisms? It's amazing!