There are hundreds of millions of years old fossils on the toilet stone of Guiyang Airport? Expert: It is five-room shellfish, more common
Beijing News Express (Reporter Zhang Lu) The marble of a toilet sink in Guiyang Airport is actually covered with fossils hundreds of millions of years ago?
Today, "Guiyang Airport toilet sinks are full of fossils" boarded the hot search, some netizens lamented that the toilet marble is so luxurious, and some netizens are curious whether they have found a priceless treasure.
In this regard, the reporter interviewed Shen Shuzhong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Academy of Geological Sciences of Nanjing University.
He said that this fossil is the five-room shellfish Shiqian pseudo-shell shell mollusk, which is about 440 million years ago, and is a relatively common brachiopod shell fossil.
When Chen Shangbin, director of the Department of Geology of China University of Mining and Technology, was on a business trip, he found in the toilet of Guiyang Airport that the washbasin countertop was covered with fossil remains.
Shen Shuzhong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of the Academy of Geological Sciences of Nanjing University, told reporters that the fossil platform in the toilets of the Longdongbao Airport in Guiyang is the five-chamber shellfish Shiqian pseudo-shell shell shellfish, about 440 million years ago, and it is Rong Jiayu from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Academician is equal to a fossil species determined in 1974.
Such fossils are commonly found in Zunyi, Meitan, Shiqian, Northeast Guizhou, and are the product of shallow ocean storm deposits.
"Fossils of hundreds of millions of years" make netizens feel extremely precious, but according to Shen Shuzhong, this kind of fossil is very common, and the subfloor of the National Grand Theater uses stone with this kind of fossil.
Previously, experts identified it as a fossil owl head shell (Stringocephalus owl head shell) about 390 million years ago.
Shen Shuzhong said that it is very common to contain fossils in the stone of hotels and toilets. Owl head shell fossils are also often seen. They belong to perforated shellfish, while pseudo-shell shell shells belong to five-chamber shellfish. They are two different orders, and the times are different. .
Beijing News reporter Zhang Lu