Godzillus
Godzillus is the informal name of a fossil discovered in the Late Ordovician (Katian) Kope Formation, which is situated near Covington, Kentucky. It was discovered in 2011 by amateur paleontologist Ron Fine, of the Cincinnati Dry Dredgers.[1] The reassembled fossil had a roughly elliptical shape with multiple lobes[2] totaling almost seven feet (2.1 m) in length and is believed by Fine to have been nine feet-tall (2.7 m) when upright.[3] David L. Meyer, of the University of Cincinnati geology department, believed it to be a fossilized mat of algae.[4] In 2016, Ron Fine, David L. Meyer, and two other scientists published a study implicating that the fossil might not be a new taxon and could instead have been a complex preservation of trilobites.[5]
References
- ↑ Hand, Greg (2012-04-24). "Mysterious 'Monster' Discovered By Amateur Paleontologist". University of Cincinnati News. Archived from the original on 27 September 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2012. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Mystery Sea Beast of Cincinnati Found". Discovery News. April 25, 2012. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
- ↑ "Godzillus' fossil find stumps experts". stuff.co.nz. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
- ↑ Kaplan, Jeremy A. (May 2, 2012). "Mystery deepens surrounding sea beast of Cincinnati". Fox News. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
- ↑ Meyer, David L.; Brett, Carlton E.; Dattilo, Benjamin F.; Fine, Ron (2016). "Inverted trilobites: Key to complex preservation of an organically textured surface in offshore siliciclastic mudstone and carbonate facies: Kope Formation (Upper Ordovician), Kenton County, Kentucky, USA". PALAIOS. 31 (10): 453–462. Bibcode:2016Palai..31..453M. doi:10.2110/palo.2016.028. ISSN 0883-1351. Unknown parameter
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