The picture was taken by Jacob Moffat, also part of my team. The geologist in the photo is Allegra Whistler and is one of my Strata GeoData staff. It is thought to be the biggest in Canada, but this cannot be confirmed unless the specimen is officially shipped to a museum or university, and collection of this specimen has been deterred since the 1940s! The fossil is of a Titanites sp., probably Titanites occidentalis. The expedition by Randell’s non-profit society, Below BC, is a project “to explore parts of British Columbia’s geological heritage.” He provided further background on the photograph: He recognized it as a giant specimen of ammonite, a long-lost relative of the modern-day, shelled nautilus, which is in the cephalopod family that includes the octopus, the squid and the cuttlefish.Īndy Randell, who tweeted the picture of the fossil from his companies’ social media accounts, confirmed this was the specimen in question.
The discovery of a “fossil truck tire” in the sandstone by Coal Creek was reported, and Chuck Newmarch, a geologist with the British Columbia Geological Survey, was sent to investigate. In July 1947, geologists stumbled upon the ammonite fossil while mapping coal seams in Fernie’s Coal Valley. In fact, the fossil displayed is a famous specimen first reported in 1947 by British Columbia Geological Survey geologist Chuck Newmarch outside the town of Fernie, British Columbia, as reported in Mountain Culture magazine: Several readers alerted Snopes to the picture, concerned that it was perhaps a hoax.
Nice find by the team today! Titanites sp., a giant ammonite fossil from south eastern British Columbia! This site is known, just crazy awesome to see it for real! #geology #consulting #exploration #minerals #BritishColumbia #gold #silver #teamwork #sus… /RIHYdA1Ss0 On 18 June 2019, the Twitter account StrataGeoData posted an image of a giant ammonite fossil:
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