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The only known fossil, called Ida, was discovered in 1983 [2] at the Messel pit, a disused quarry near the village of Messel, about 35 km (22 mi) southeast of Frankfurt, Germany. The fossil, divided into a slab and partial counterslab after the amateur excavation and sold separately, was not reassembled until 2007. The fossil is of a juvenile ...
In May, 2009, he announced the acquisition and scientific description of a 47-million-year-old, 95% complete skeleton of a primitive primate, Darwinius masillae, that had been in the private collection of an amateur fossil collector for 25 years. [4] Hurum named the specimen "Ida", after his daughter. [5]
Darwinius masillae fossil. Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link is a one-hour television documentary made by Atlantic Productions for the BBC, first aired on 26 May 2009 on BBC One. It explores the story behind the discovery of an early primate fossil, Darwinius masillae, nicknamed Ida, in a shale quarry in Germany.
Ida [20] PMO 214.214 (Slab A) American Museum of Natural History: Darwinius masillae: 47 mya Messel Pit: Two slabs, A and B, comprising a nearly complete individual with part and counterpart. Devil's Tower Child, [21] Abel Gibraltar 2: Homo neanderthalensis: 42 ka Devil's Tower: Five cranial fragments belonging to a young boy. Laia [22 ...
This is an overview of the paleofauna of the Eocene Messel Formation as explored by the Messel Pit excavations in Germany.A former quarry and now UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Messel Formation preserves what lived in and around a meromictic lake surrounded by a paratropical rainforest during the latest early to earliest middle Eocene, approximately 47 Ma.
The fossil examined in the study, collected during a 2011 expedition by the Antarctic Peninsula Paleontology Project, was found encased in rock that dated back 68.4 to 69.2 million years and ...
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List of storms named Ida; Mount Ida, disambiguation page; I.D.A. (drug store), originally Independent Druggists' Alliance, a Canadian drug store; Ila (Hinduism) or Idā, a Vedic goddess; Ida (Middleverse), a fictional android librarian in comic books; Ida (sword), a type of sword used by the Yoruba people; Ida (yoga), a Nadi in Indian medicine ...