Show EXPERT FINDS RARE FOSSILS IN CHINA date back 80 million years says scientist san francisco calif discovery j by a wandering missionary of a i rare r are fossil deposit in shantung brov I 1 ince in china has been revealed by dr ralph chaney paleontologist of the carnegie institution and the uni hersity of california who will study the fossils at the request of the chinese government for more than fourteen years samples of the deposit lay among the belongings of an obscure mission worker A party of chinese ceolo fists when shown the rocks re their significance and report ed the discovery to the chinese geological survey the specimens which belong to the tertiary age of 80 years ago are a scientific rarity accord mg ing to dr chaney the shantung discovery con fists of fossil mammals and plants occurring together in the same formation which is very unusual he said they usually occur separately the most significant thing so far said dr chaney is a fossil deer apparently related to a cies which formerly inhabited the southeastern united states fossil plants occurring in the rock similar to those which grew in that region millions of years ago also were found with a party of chinese fist dr chaney will go to the southern part of shantung province to study the lak laka deposits where a missionary picked up a strange looking rock nearly fifteen years ago scientists hope to learn from the new discovery whether conditions in north america paralleled those in asia when the earth was in the cooling off stage the similarity of plant and mammal life in the specimens uncovered bears out this theory dr chaney said |