User:EddaBeck/sandbox

Answers to Module 7 Questions

- my media is an image of Niagara Falls, viewed from the Canadian side

- it is my own work

- the file is a JPEG

- I chose a creative commons CC0 waiver

- I'm adding it to the categories: waterfalls and niagara falls

Practicing citations

This is a scientific paper describing a species of giant python from Bluff Downs Fossil Site, by several palaeontologists specialising in Australian megafaunal species.

22 taxa forming the Bluff Downs Local Fauna are described, each species having its own section, and a discussion is included of what can be interpreted about the environment from the presence of certain animals.

Published in a reputable geological journal, this paper examines the geology of the Bluff Downs Fossil Site in great detail, and proposes an amendment to the date applied to the Allingham Formation, in which the Bluff Downs Local Fauna are found. The nature of multiple basalt flows from Miocene volcanoes are examined, as are the ways dates can be approximated from analysis of these sediments. As plainly stated in the opening of this article, Tertiary Australian sediments are notoriously difficult to date, hence the constant need for revisions and re-examinations such as this. This will be the basis of my section on geology.

The unique fauna, volcanic activity of the region and dating of the site are mentioned.

Mekosuchines have been found at Bluff Downs Fossil Site, and are humorously known by Professor Michael Archer as “drop crocs” since the articulation of their wrist bones suggests that they climbed trees.