{"id":23915,"date":"2023-04-29T21:05:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T01:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=23915"},"modified":"2023-04-29T21:07:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T01:07:27","slug":"episode-807-part-3-speech-that-was-never-given-ordovecian-fossils-nautiloids-and-crnoids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=23915","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 807 Part 3: Speech that was never given ORDOVECIAN FOSSILS….NAUTILOIDS AND CRNOIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE 808    ORODOVICIAN SHALE\u2026.ANCIENT CREATURES ONCE LIVED HERE<\/div>\n
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PART 3    THE SPEECH THAT WAS NEVER GIVEN<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The wreck above is a fake that was beached near Vineland for many years. It is a mood piece.  The carvings are real \u2026.from the Scourge and the Hamilton warships\u2026<\/div>\n
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The bottom of Lake Ontario is littered with the wrecks of old schooners of which Scourge<\/div>\n
and the Hamilton (war of 1812) are the most famous because both Schooners sit upright in 88 metres of <\/div>\n
water at he west end of Lake Ontario.  They are a museum that we will never see but<\/div>\n
they are there for us to imagine.   They sit on a bed of Ordovician shale in which fossils<\/div>\n
of ancient life are imbedded.<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere was no land as we know it today as soil and plants\u2026all above the water was just bare granite and volcanic islands\u2026maybe a little bit of algae growing where<\/div>\n
the rock met the seas.  Noting else.  No trees, no plants, no grass and certainly no flowers.  But the sea<\/div>\n
was  full of  life.  Some places the sea bottoms was carpeted with crinoids.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cHow do  you know?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cbecause some of these pieces of  shale have crinoid fossils so thick that the shale is hard to find. At some<\/div>\n
point whole populations of crinoids died another bodies  settled into the mud only to be changed by chemical<\/div>\n
action over millions of years into he fossils we can find littered here and there on this  shingle beach.”<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhat did they eat?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNautiloids  were predators.  They ate other creatures, especially little trilobites. The inland sea tamed with life.<\/div>\n

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A Nautillus\u2026descendent of the Ordovician nautalloids that lived 450 million years ago<\/div>\n

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“Most nautiloids did not survive the five great extinctions that devastated living things on our planet.   Most but not all.<\/div>\n
One nautallus can still be found in the deep tropical waters of the Asian Pacific Ocean.  Not easy to find for it dives into<\/div>\n
the dark depths of the ocean in day time and only rises to kill when the moon does.  A scary but beautiful creature.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe creature that seems to have been very common 450 million years ago,  Crinoids looked like plants.<\/div>\n
As a matter of fact some called them \u2018sea lilliies\u2019.  But they were animals.  At the bottom of their long neck (spine if you will),<\/div>\n
crinoids had root like feet that anchored them to the bottom of the ancient seas.  At the top of their long necks<\/div>\n
was a bunch of tentacles that waved in  the ocean currents grabbing plankton and other bits of edible things<\/div>\n
that drifted  by.  The plankton was taken by the tentacle and dropped or placed  in the crinoid mouth at the tentacle base.<\/div>\n
The food was chewed and the good parts were kept.  The rejected parts were spit  out.   A crinoid had  a mouth and<\/div>\n
a rectum in the same place.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cCould they move?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYes, slowly the feet moved from stone to stone.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWere they common?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cVery common\u2026they lived  in  great  clusters wherever plankton moved on ocean subterranean currents.”<\/div>\n
\u201cAnd if current changed they walked to a better spot, right?  How big were they?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cThe fossils I have found that look like crinoids are quite small but I read somewhere that the crinoids could<\/div>\n
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