We found shell fossils , lots of them . could it be that we dig further ...?

Question

will find fish fossils ?

Answer 1

It is possible you will find fish fossils if you dig deeper.  Are you sure they are fossils?  If you found a bunch of them, you may want to get them checked out by somebody from the museum or any kind of geological site to make sure that they are fossils.  Another thing, I would be careful where I dig because there are some areas that prohibit diging.  Also be safe not to hit any pipelines.   Here in Jersey you have to get a permit to dig just for that reason.

Answer 2

In Geo-time line, shell crustations and mullosks were the for-runners of 'fish'...   fish evolved after them.  But, the time-line is dinamic... shell and mullosks kept evoling even as fish were just beginning to succed, so there was a period of time where shell and mullosks pre-date the fish, and a time where both were evident simmoltainously.

  There  is the problem with trying to dig deeper to find fish fosels... the deeper you dig, the less varrietys of fish there were.

   Conversly, the formations above your shell-bed will contain  even larger varietys of fish.

   Along with the uncertinty of the placement of your shell-bed in geo-time sequence, there is the question of that aquatic formation haveing had multipul uplifting, or synclineing...  if the sea inundated that particular vacinity only rarly, there will be fewer formations of aquatic life above it, and the probability of land dwellers.

  If the formation was inundated many times, your fossel record will show the evolutional development of many sea dwelling shell mullosk creatures through time, one era laying on top of another sequencually, as the land rose and fell relitive to sea-level.

  Shel-fish requie a verry narrow environmental nitch to survive, so..  the not all sea conditions would have been met in every incedent of land synclining, and the shell-fish would not have thrived in 'those' times, even tho there was a sea covering the shell-bed you have found.

  Each layering of sediment is like a page in a book... and each page tells a story of a tiny portion of history, and each chapter of pages tells of earth's divers and dinamic past.

  Incedently, UNDER the formations holding shell-fish fossels ther are formations containing 'there' ancestors, and THEY had no shells... so there fossel remainants are even harder to find, because so little of them consisted of any thing that could be fosselized!

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