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Originally Posted by Bill Marsh
Is this an actual fossilized material? Stone?
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Hi, it is hard to believe this is fossilized material. Fossilezed material is lost his color, This looks very colorfull
There are some fossil elephants - and not mammouts like in the link was mentioned - found in Sulawesi and Flores. These are only 800.000 years old, maybe there are not turned into mineral material like most fossils do.
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Dubois collection
Eugene Dubois collected vertebratesat the end of the 19th century in Indonesia. The collection is world famous, because it contains the first fossils (the femur, skullcap and the molar) from Pithecanthropus erectus, nowadays Homo erectus. Besides this, Dubois collected about 40,000-mammal fossil from Sumatra and Java. As there was a discussion about their stratigraphic position, fieldwork is/was carried out in Java, Sumatra, Pakistan and Vietnam. Based on the results of those fieldwork campaigns a new biostratigraphy was developed for Java. As this collection also contains the fossils of pigmy proboscideans (elephants) from Sulawesi and Flores, fieldwork is/was carried out in Sulawesi, Flores and Philippines; all islands with unbalanced endemic island faunas. Every island has its own evolutionary history. Such faunas are also present on the islands of the Mediterranean, like Crete, Kasos, Cyprus etc. On Flores a layer with large Stegodon bones was found together with artefacts. The layer was dated 800.000 years, which indicates that Homo erectus could cross a water-barrier.
from
http://www.naturalis.nl/asp/page.asp...2Fi000847.html