28 August

My first collecting day here, in Posdnyaki. I with my dad went there by a bus, and long searched for any fossils. Next a breakthrough - I saw a piece of sandstone and there was a whole Rugose coral - Grewingkia.



Two fossils, Grewingkia and a Tabulate coral.



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Perhaps the most chilling question was - how did Paleozoic coralls get there? I studied a geography atlas where was a geological map of Ukraine, and there was shown that Kyiv is made up of Paleogene deposits. However I didn't tell you everything. These remains were unearthed in artificial sand inwashes, so perhaps the sediments were mixed up.

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Next we saw some sand hills and ran towards them. There we walked long, and them dad spotted a tooth of a shark(Lamniforma). It was our first vertebrate fossil found here.



Shark teeth

After it we found many mammal and bird bone bits. They all were small - no more than 2 cm.





Bird and ammal bone bits