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Original Post Date: 2008-03-07 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[A friend sent me these comments when I mentioned I’d seen the dinosaur tracks in rock on a farm in the Eastern Cape. I knew about the Karoo being a great place for fossils since it was a sea bed. Did you know, in the Karoo there are imprints of JELLYFISH – yes, JELLYFISH, in SOLID ROCK! Nobody knows how it got there! Jan]
Lovely. I know about the karoo. But never the eastern Cape. I was stunned by the dinosaur tracks in the solid rock. Flipping awesome. I took photos!!!
Hi Jan
I’m surprised that you didn’t know about the wealth of fossils down in the
Eastern Cape.
The Karoo was once a big inland sea or lake, and as the time was very rich
in the animal and plant life of the time. Some of that animal life has
remained in fossil form.
When I was studying Zoology at UPE we went on a field trip which included
the graff Reinet/Nieuw Bethesda area. That area is particularly rich in
fossils, and in places the fossil bone are literally sticking out of the
ground because of subsequent weathering of the rocks.
I also remember going on a field trip when I was a member of the junior Red
Cross in primary school to Graaff Reinet and visiting the farm of the
Rubidge family and seeing fossils for the first time. The Rubidges were very
involved in paleontology and did much work on fossils in the area.
On the university zoology field trip I mentioned we stopped at a place on
the way back to PE. You could clearly see the different layers which were
the remains of the bottom of that lake/sea. Folding of the land had turned
what were horizontal layers into vertical layers.We chopped away at the
rocks and you could clearly see the outlines of the fish of the time in the
rocks – heads, eyes, fins, scales, etc. I kept those fossils but eventually
threw them away when I left PE to move to Pretoria.
Interestingly, the geologists told us that those layers we saw extended all
the way to the Western Cape almost as far as Ceres and Tulbach where they
had the earthquake in 1968.
Cheers
Dave