samedi 2 novembre 2013

Purely Paleozoic, Mixed and Uncertain Periods (based on Wikipedia, List of Fossil Sites)

Devonian – Carboniferous

North America
Bakken FormationUSA: Montana, North Dakota and Canada: SaskatchewanUpper Devonian – Lower Carboniferous (Early Mississippian)


Silurian - Devonian

Oceania
Heathcote siltstoneAustralia: VictoriaLower Silurian- Upper Devonian
North America
Delorme FormationCanada: Yukon


Ordovician - Silurian

Europe
Dob's LinnScotlandOrdovician-Silurian boundary


Cambrian – Permian

Africa
AlnifMoroccoCambrian – Late Permian

Purely Paleozoic, Pure Periods (based on Wikipedia, List of Fossil Sites)

Permian

North America
Texas Red BedsUSA: Texas


Carboniferous (see also Pennsylvanian and Mississippian)

Europe
Fossil GroveScotlandCarboniferous (Serpukhovian)
DonetskUkraine
North America
Joggins Fossil CliffsCanada: Nova Scotia
Linton FormationUSA: OhioCarboniferous (Pennsylvanian)
Pocono FormationUSA: Maryland, Pennsylvania, West VirginiaCarboniferous (Mississippian)


Pennsylvanian

North America
Breathitt GroupUSA: Kentucky
Francis Creek Shale
Mazon Creek
USA: IllinoisCarboniferous (Pennsylvanian)
Linton FormationUSA: OhioCarboniferous (Pennsylvanian)
Mattoon FormationUSA: Illinois
Naco FormationUSA: ArizonaPennsylvanian, Desmoinesian
Pikeville FormationUSA: Kentucky
Pocahontas FormationUSA: West Virginia


Mississippian

North America
Price West FormationUSA: West VirginiaLower Mississippian


Devonian

Asia
Zhongming FormationChina
Europe
Gauja FormationEstonia and LatviaMiddle Devonian
Hunsrück SlatesGermany: Bundenbach
Rhynie ChertScotland
RazdolneUkraine
Oceania
Canowindra-GooloogongAustralia: New South Wales
Gogo FormationAustralia: Western Australia
GrenfellAustralia: New South Wales
North America
Falls of the OhioUSA: Indiana
Fossil Prairie ParkUSA: Iowa
Hungry Hollow FormationCanada: Ontario
Miguasha National ParkCanada: QuébecDevonian (Famennian)
Traverse Group (Petoskey)USA: Michigan
Widder FormationCanada: Ontario


Silurian

Asia
Xiushan FormationChina: GuizhouLower Silurian (Llandovery)
North America
Bainbridge FormationUSA: Missouri
Clarita FormationUSA: Oklahoma
Clinton Group Keefer Formation
Rose Hill Formation
USA: New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia
Gower FormationUSA: Iowa
McKenzie FormationUSA: West Virginia
Medina FormationUSA: New York and Canada: Ontario
Quarry Mountain FormationUSA: Oklahoma
Schoonmaker Reef and Soldiers' Home ReefUSA: Wisconsin
St. Clair LimestoneUSA: Arkansas
Syracuse FormationUSA: New York
Tuscarora FormationUSA: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia


Ordovician

Europe
Gilwern HillWales
North America
Beecher's Trilobite BedUSA: New York
Chazy FormationUSA: Vermont
Cincinnatian GroupUSA: Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky Late Ordovician
Cobourg FormationCanada: Ontario
Decorah Shale Galena GroupUSA: Minnesota and Upper Midwest
Pamelia Formation Champlain Bridge (Ottawa), Quebec sideCanada: Quebec, Gatineau, AylmerUpper Ordovician
Platteville Limestone USA: Minnesota
Rust Formation
Walcott-Rust quarry
USA: New YorkUpper Ordovician
St. Peter SandstoneUSA: Minnesota, Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska, South Dakota
Trenton GroupCanada: Quebec
Whitby FormationCanada: Ontario


Cambrian

Asia
Maotianshan Shales
Chengjiang County
China
Europe
MureroSpain
Oceania
Emu Bay ShaleAustralia: South Australia (Kangaroo Island)Lower Cambrian
North America
Burgess ShaleCanada: British ColumbiaCambrian (Albertan)
Manuels RiverCanada: Newfoundland
Wheeler ShaleUSA: Utah

Purely Mesozoic, Mixed or Uncertain Periods (based on Wikipedia, List of Fossil Sites)

Jurassic - Cretaceous

Europe
RiodevaSpain
South America
Beauvoir FormationArgentinaUpper Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous


Jurassic or Cretaceous

Asia
Daohugou BedsChina


Triassic – Jurassic

Africa
Elliot FormationSouth Africa
North America
Zion National ParkUSA: Utah


Mesozoic

Europe
Pobiti KamaniBulgaria
North America
Drumheller, BadlandsCanada: Alberta
South America
Paja FormationColombia

Purely Mesozoic, Pure Periods (based on Wikipedia, List of Fossil Sites)

Cretaceous

Africa
Bahariya FormationEgyptUpper Cretaceous
Elrhaz FormationNigerLower Cretaceous
Maevarano FormationMadagascarUpper Cretaceous
Kem Kem BedsMoroccoUpper Cretaceous
OrapaBotswanaUpper Cretaceous
Tegana FormationMoroccoLower Cretaceous
Asia
Barun Goyot FormationMongoliaUpper Cretaceous
Bayan Shireh FormationMongoliaUpper Cretaceous
Bissekty FormationUzbekistan
Bostobynskaya Formation
(= Bostobe Formation)
KazakhstanUpper Cretaceous (Turonian–Campanian)
Chaomidianzi FormationChinaLower Cretaceous (Barremian-Aptian)
Dabeigou FormationChina
Dashuigou FormationChinaLower Cretaceous
Djadochta FormationMongoliaUpper Cretaceous
Eijnhoro FormationChinaLower Cretaceous
Flaming CliffsMongolia
HakelLebanon
Iren Dabasu FormationChinaUpper Cretaceous
Jindong FormationKorea
Jiufotang FormationChinaLower Cretaceous
Khukhtek FormationMongoliaLower Cretaceous
Kitadani Formation * Kitadani QuarryJapanLower Cretaceous
Lameta FormationIndiaUpper Cretaceous
Minhe FormationChina
Nemegt FormationMongoliaUpper Cretaceous
Sao Khua FormationThailandLower Cretaceous
Tuchengzi FormationChinaLower Cretaceous
Tugulu GroupChinaLower Cretaceous
Udurchukan FormationRussiaUpper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian?)
Uhangri FormationKoreaLate Cretaceous
Xiagou FormationChina
Xinminbao Group
(Chijinbao, Digou and Zhonggou formations)
ChinaLower Cretaceous
Yixian FormationChinaLower Cretaceous
Yuliangze FormationChinaUpper Cretaceous
Zaza Formation
Baissa
RussiaLower Cretaceous
Europe
Calizas de La Huérguina FormationSpainCretaceous (Barremian)
Las HoyasSpain
Lo HuecoSpain
Maastricht FormationBenelux
Valkenburg FormationBelgium
Wessex FormationEngland
Oceania
Dinosaur CoveAustralia: Victoria
Dinosaur DreamingAustralia: Victoria
Great Otway National ParkAustralia: Victoria
Horseshoe Bay Limestone DownsNew Zealand: Waikato
Lightning RidgeAustralia: New South Wales
North America
Austin ChalkUSA: TexasLate Cretaceous
Cañón del Tule FormationMexicoCretaceous (Maastrichtian)
Cedar Mountain FormationUSA: Colorado and Utah
Cerro del Pueblo FormationMexicoCretaceous (Campanian)
Cerro Grande FormationMexicoCretaceous (Maastrichtian)
Cerro Huerta FormationMexicoCretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian)
Cloverly Formation
Como Bluff
USA: Montana, WyomingLower Cretaceous
Coon Creek FormationUSA: Tennessee and MississippiCretaceous (Maastrichtian)
Dakota FormationUSA: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, WisconsinUpper Cretaceous
Demopolis Chalk FormationUSA: Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee
Dinosaur Park FormationCanada: AlbertaCretaceous (Campanian)
Above includes: Hilda archaeological site
Ellisdale Fossil SiteUSA: New JerseyCretaceous (Campanian)
Eutaw FormationUSA: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi
Glen Rose FormationUSA: TexasCretaceous (Aptian-Albian)
Hell Creek FormationUSA: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and WyomingCretaceous (Maastrichtian)
Judith River FormationUSA: MontanaCretaceous (Campanian)
Lance Formation
(= Lance Creek Fm.)
USA: North Dakota and WyomingCretaceous (Maastrichtian)
Las Encinas FormationMexicoCretaceous (Maastrichtian)
Las Imágenes FormationMexicoCretaceous (Maastrichtian)
Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy SiteUSA: New Jersey
Lennep FormationUSA: Montana
Mooreville Chalk FormationUSA: Alabama and Mississippi
Navesink FormationUSA: New Jersey
Niobrara Formation
Smoky Hill Chalk
USA: Kansas, Nebraska
Oldman FormationCanada: AlbertaCretaceous (Campanian)
Rincón Colorado Mexico: Coahuila
Ripley FormationUSA: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee
Two Medicine FormationUSA: MontanaCretaceous (Campanian)
Woodbine FormationUSA: TexasCretaceous (Cenomanian)
Woodbury FormationUSA: Haddonfield, New JerseyCretaceous (Cenomanian)
Zuni BasinUSA: New Mexico
South America
Allen FormationArgentinaUpper Cretaceous (Campanian – Maastrichtian)
Anacleto FormationArgentinaUpper Cretaceous (Campanian)
Bajo de la Carpa FormationArgentinaUpper Cretaceous (Santonian)
Bauru BasinBrazil
Candeleros FormationArgentinaUpper Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
Huincul FormationArgentinaUpper Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
Las Curtiembres FormationArgentinaUpper Cretaceous (Campanian)
Lecho FormationArgentinaUpper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
Lisandro Formation
(= Cerro Lisandro Fm.)
ArgentinaUpper Cretaceous (Cenomanian – Turonian)
Lohan Cura FormationArgentinaLower Cretaceous (Aptian – Albian)
Quinriquina FormationChile
Plottier FormationArgentinaUpper Cretaceous (Coniacian – ?Santonian)
Portezuelo FormationArgentinaUpper Cretaceous (Turonian – Coniacian)
Rio Colorado Formation
Auca Mahuevo
Argentina
Santana Formation
Crato Member
Brazil
Yahgan FormationArgentinaLower Cretaceous
Antarctica
Santa Marta Formation
James Ross Island
 Upper Cretaceous
Snow Hill Island Formation
James Ross Island
 Upper Cretaceous


Jurassic

Africa
Clarens FormationSouth AfricaLower Jurassic
Tendaguru FormationTanzaniaUpper Jurassic
Asia
Balabansai FormationKazakhstanUpper Jurassic
Dashanpu FormationChinaMiddle Jurassic
KermanIran
Kota FormationIndiaLower Jurassic
Lufeng FormationChina
Shishugou FormationChinaUpper Jurassic
Tham Khuyen cavesVietnam
Tiaojishan FormationChinaMiddle Jurassic
Wucaiwan FormationChinaMiddle Jurassic
Europe
Grès à ReptilesFrance
GuimarotaPortugalLate Jurassic
Jurassic CoastEngland
Lourinhã Formation
Amoreira-Porto Novo Members
Sobral Unit
PortugalLate Jurassic
Lyme RegisEngland: Dorset
Oxford ClayEngland
Solnhofen limestoneGermany
Oceania
Curio BayNew Zealand: Southland
TalbragarAustralia: New South Wales (central west)
North America
Aztec SandstoneUSA: Nevada, CaliforniaEarly Jurassic
Bone Cabin QuarryUSA: Wyoming
Dinosaur State ParkUSA: Connecticut
Kayenta FormationUSA: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah
Morrison Formation
Como Bluff
Canada/USA (Great Plains)Upper Jurassic
Purgatoire River track siteUSA: ColoradoLate Jurassic
Red Gulch Dinosaur TracksiteUSA: WyomingMiddle Jurassic
Sundance Formation
Como Bluff
USA: WyomingUpper Jurassic
South America
Lemaire FormationArgentinaUpper Jurassic
La Matilde Formation Cerro Cuadrado Petrified Forest ArgentinaMiddle to Upper Jurassic (Bathonian – Oxfordian)
Antarctica
Hanson Formation Early Jurassic
Nordenskjöld Formation
Longing Peninsula
Prebble Formation Middle Jurassic


Triassic

Asia
Maleri FormationIndiaUpper Triassic
Europe
Monte San GiorgioSwitzerland and Italy
Aust CliffEngland
Löwenstein FormationGermanyUpper Triassic
Oceania
Denmark Hill Insect BedAustralia: Ipswich, QueenslandUpper Triassic
Knocklofty FormationAustralia: TasmaniaLower Triassic
Wianamatta SeriesAustralia: New South Wales (Sydney)Upper Triassic
North America
Chugwater FormationUSA: Wyoming, Montana, ColoradoUpper Triassic
Ghost RanchUSA: New Mexico
Lockatong FormationUSA: New Jersey
Manchester QuarryUSA: Connecticut
South America
Caturrita Formation
Paleorrota
Brazil: Rio Grande do SulUpper Triassic (Carnian – Norian)
Ischigualasto FormationArgentina
Panguipulli Formation Licán Ray
Punta Peters
(5 km east of Panguipulli)
Chile
Santa Maria Formation
Paleorrota
Brazil: Rio Grande do SulMiddle – Upper Triassic (Ladinian-Carnian)
Tralcán Formation TralcánChile
Antarctica
Falla Formation
Fremouw Formation
Thrinaxodon Col Cumulus Hills

Purely Cenozoic, Mixed or Indeterminate Epochs (bas on Wikipedia, List of Fossil Sites)

Pleistocene - Holocene

Europe
Cuevas de los MurciélagosSpain: La Palma, Canary Islands
Es PouásSpain: Ibiza (Balearic Islands)
North America
Aucilla River
Page-Ladson prehistory site
USA: Florida


Pliocene – Pleistocene

Africa
Cradle of Humankind
Coopers Cave
Gladysvale Cave
Kromdraai
Malapa
Motsetsi
Plovers Lake
Sterkfontein
Swartkrans
and others
South Africa
Koobi ForaKenya
LaetoliTanzania
Omo Kibish Formation
(= Kibish Formation)
Ethiopia
Shungura FormationEthiopiaPliocene – Lower Pleistocene
Usno FormationEthiopiaPliocene – Lower Pleistocene
North America
Blanco FormationUSA: Kansas, Texas
Glenns Ferry Formation
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
USA: Idaho


Miocene – Pliocene

Africa
LothagamKenya
West Coast Fossil ParkSouth AfricaTerminal Miocene/Early Pliocene
Oceania
[Otway BasinAustralia: Victoria
Spring Creek - Late Miocene to Early Pliocene]
QuanbunAustralia: Western Australia
North America
Bone Valley FormationUSA: Florida?Miocene-Pliocene
South America
Andalgala FormationArgentina
Bahía Inglesa FormationChileMiddle Miocene-Upper Pliocene
Pisco FormationPeruUpper Miocene/Lower Pliocene
Solimões FormationBrazilUpper Miocene/Lower Pliocene


Oligocene - Miocene

Oceania
Etadunna FormationAustralia: South Australia
RiversleighAustralia: Queensland
North America
John Day FormationUSA: Oregon


Eocene - Oligocene

Africa
Jebel Qatrani FormationEgypt
Asia
Kishima Group
Daimyoji Formation
Funazu Formation
Itanoura Formation
Kakinoura Formation
Kishima Formation
Magome Formation
Matsushima Formation
Okinoshima Formation
Oshima Formation
JapanUpper Eocene/Lower Oligocene
Europe
Quercy PhosphoritesFrance
North America
Keasey FormationUSA: OregonUpper Eocene/Lower Oligocene
Pittsburg Bluff FormationUSA: OregonUpper Eocene/Lower Oligocene
White River FormationUSA: ColoradoUpper Eocene – mid-Oligocene
South America
San Julian FormationArgentina
Sloggett Formation
(= Bahía Sloggett Formation)
ArgentinaUpper Eocene/Lower Oligocene


Paleocene - Eocene

North America
Willwood FormationUSA: Wyoming


More than two

Oligocene - Pliocene


Oceania
Kangaroo Wells Australia: Northern Territory Oligocene - Early Pliocene


Neogene

Asia
Minatogawa ManJapan


Paleogene

Oceania
Waipara FormationNew Zealand: Canterbury

Purely Cenozoic, Pure Epochs (based on Wikipedia List of Fossil Sites)

Holocene

AetokremnosCyprusHolocene (Mesolithic)
Pindai CavesNew Caledonia


Pleistocene

Africa
BuiaEritrea
Bouri FormationEthiopia
HoedjiespuntSouth Africa
Jebel IrhoudMorocco
Klasies River CavesSouth Africa
Asia
Lake Nojiri
Tategahana
Japan
Lang Trang CavesVietnam
Liang Bua CaveIndonesia: Flores
NgandongIndonesia
SambungmacanIndonesia
SangiranIndonesia
Shivalik Fossil ParkIndia
TrinilIndonesia: Java
Zhoukoudian China
Europa
AtapuercaSpain
CepranoItaly
Isernia La PinetaItaly
Crô-MagnonFrance
DmanisiGeorgia
Kostolac-ViminaciumSerbia
KozarnikaBulgaria
Krapina
Hušnjak hill
Croatia
La Chapelle-aux-SaintsFrance
La FerrassieFrance
Maltravieso CaveSpain
MauerGermany
Neandertal
Kleine Feldhofer Grotte
Germany
Pontnewydd CaveWales
Santa Ana CaveSpain
Oceania
Cuddie Springs Australia: New South Wales
Lake CallabonnaAustralia: South Australia
Lake MungoAustralia: New South Wales
Lancefield SwampAustralia: Victoria
Mammoth CaveAustralia: Western AustraliaPleistocene?
Naracoorte CavesAustralia: South Australia
North America
Bighill Creek FormationCanadaUpper Pleistocene
La Brea Tar PitsUSA: CaliforniaPleistocene (Rancholabrean)
Ziegler Reservoir fossil site
('Snowmastodon')
USA: ColoradoPleistocene (Illinoian)
South America
Ensenada FormationArgentina
Mylodon CaveChile
Pilauco BajoChile
Toca de Boa Vista CavesBrazil


Pliocene

Africa
Afar DepressionEthiopia
Ahl al OughlamMoroccoUpper Pliocene
Awash RiverEthiopia
Hadar FormationEthiopia
Olduvai GorgeTanzania
TaungSouth Africa
Asia
Es SkhulIsrael: Mount Carmel
QafzehIsrael: Nazareth
TabunIsrael
Yushima Formation
(= Tatsunokuchi Formation)
JapanLower Pliocene
Europa
DorkovoBulgariaLower Pliocene
Venta MicenaSpain
Oceania
Bluff DownsAustralia: Queensland
Greta Siltstone FormationNew ZealandUpper Pliocene
Lake Ngapakaldi
to Lake Palankarinna
Fossil Area
Australia: South Australia
(Tirari Desert)
Mampuwordu Sands FormationAustralia: South Australia
[From Otway Basin Australia: Victoria:
Dutton Way - Early Pliocene
Forsyth's Banks
and Fossil rock stack
 - Early Pliocene]
Tangahoe Mudstone FormationNew Zealand Upper Pliocene
North America
Edson BedsUSA: Kansas Pliocene (Blancan)
Pipe Creek SinkholeUSA: Indiana
Rexroad FormationUSA: Kansas
San Diego FormationUSA: California Middle-Upper Pliocene


Miocene

Africa
Rusinga Island Kenya
Asia
Baynunah Formation United Arab Emirates Upper Miocene
Kızılırmak Formation Turkey: Evren, Ankara Tortonian
Nagura Formation Japan Middle Miocene
Europe
Batallones Spain
Buñol Spain
Baccinello Italy
Crevillente Spain
La Roma Spain
Sansan France
TurritellenplatteGermany: Baden-WürttembergMiocene (mid-Burdigalian)
Venta del MoroSpain
Oceania
AlcootaAustralia: Northern Territory
Bathans FormationNew Zealand: Otago
Bullock CreekAustralia: Northern Territory
Cape RangeAustralia: Western Australia
[Otway Basin Australia: Victoria
Arch site - Middle Miocene
Clifton Banks - Middle to late Miocene
Leigh River - Early Miocene
Hopkins River - Middle to Late Miocene
Gibson's Steps - Bairnsdalian Middle Miocene
Curdie - Balcombian Middle Miocene]
North America
Ash Hollow Formation
Ashfall Fossil Beds
USA: NebraskaMiocene (Clarendonian)
Astoria FormationUSA: Oregon
Big Sandy FormationUSA: Arizona
Calvert FormationUSA: Maryland
Gray Fossil SiteUSA: Tennessee
Hawthorne FormationUSA: South Carolina to Florida
Mascall FormationUSA: Oregon
Monterey FormationUSA: California
Nye FormationUSA: Oregon
Pungo River Formation
Lee Creek Mine
USA: North Carolina
Rattlesnake FormationUSA: OregonMiocene (Tortonian-Messinian)
Rosebud FormationUSA: South Dakota
Round Mountain SiltUSA: CaliforniaMiddle Miocene (Barstovian)
Sheep Creek FormationUSA: NebraskaMiocene (Upper Hemingfordian?)
Temblor FormationUSA: California
Thomas FarmUSA: Florida
South America
Camacho FormationUruguay
Capadare FormationVenezuelaMiddle Miocene
Cerro Bandera FormationArgentina
Ituzaingó FormationArgentinaUpper Miocene (Huayquerian)
Patagonia MolassesArgentina
Pinturas FormationArgentinaMiocene (Burdigalian – Langhian)
Puerto Madryn FormationArgentinaUpper Miocene
Santa Cruz FormationArgentina
Santo Domingo Formation
Cuesta Santo Domingo
Chile
Urumaco Formation
Urumaco
Venezuela
Villavieja Formation
La Venta
Colombia


Oligocene

Asia
Bugti HillsPakistan
Indricotherium FormationKazakhstan
Europe
Bembridge MarlsEngland
Borgloon FormationBelgium
Hampstead FormationEngland
Oceania
Ditjimanka LFAustralia: South Australia
[Otway Basin Australia: Victoria
Kawarren - Late Oligocene
Princetown Beach - Late Oligocene
Castle Cove - Late Oligocene]
North America
Brule FormationUSA: South Dakota
South America
Abanico Formation
Tinguiririca
ChileOligocene (Rupelian)
Deseado FormationArgentina


Eocene

Africa
Ameki FormationNigeriaMiddle Eocene
Qasr el Sagha FormationEgypt
Asia
Huadian FormationChina
Irdin Manha FormationMongolia
Europe
Fur FormationDenmarkLower Eocene
Liedenas SandstoneSpainUpper Eocene (Priabonian)
London ClayEngland
Messel PitGermany
Monte BolcaItaly
Paris Basin
Argile Plastique (clay)
FranceLower Eocene
Oceania
MurgonAustralia: Queensland
Tingamarra FaunaAustralia: Queensland (south-east)Early Eocene
North America
Bridger FormationUSA: Wyoming
Chuckanut FormationUSA: Washington
Clarno FormationUSA: Oregon
Driftwood Canyon Provincial ParkCanada: British Columbia
Florissant Fossil BedsUSA: ColoradoEocene (Priabonian)
Green River FormationUSA: Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming
Huerfano FormationUSA: Colorado
Klondike Mountain FormationUSA: WashingtonEocene (Ypresian)
McAbee Fossil BedsCanada: British Columbia
Nanjemoy FormationUSA: Virginia
Puget GroupUSA: WashingtonUpper Eocene
Washakie FormationUSA: Wyoming
South America
Punta Cactus FormationArgentina
Antarctica
La Meseta Formation
Seymour Island


Paleocene

Asia
Fangou FormationChina
North America
Aquia FormationUSA: Maryland and Virginia
Ludlow Formation (= Slope Fm.)USA: North DakotaPaleocene: Tiffanian
South America
Cerrejón FormationColombiaMiddle-Late Paleocene
Olmedo FormationArgentina
Roca FormationArgentina
Sâo José de Itaboraí basinBrazilUpper Paleocene (Itaboraian)
Tunal FormationArgentina
Antarctica:
Cross Valley Formation
Seymour Island
 Upper Paleocene
Sobral Formation
Seymour Island
 Lower Paleocene (Danian)

vendredi 1 novembre 2013

Nine Questions of CMI answered - by a Catholic

Source for the Nine Questions:

CMI : ‘Are you a biblical creationist?’

  • Do you believe that God created the earth and universe in six ordinary-length (earth-rotation) days?
    • Basically yes. Heaven beyond the stars (where God's throne is) was, with angels and also earth in its most basic state created before the days.

      Days are circling around earth before as after creation of the Sun, but are counted as from location of Jerusalem. There day one was certainly rather beginning at noon than at morning. And day Seven, the first Sabbath, lasted only twelve hours as opposed to 24, it would seem, since "it was evening it was morning" were left out and God was already (at the location) resting from creation on evening of day six.

      Whether the days occurred as spontaneously understood from how they are described or are a description of one moment creation as St Augustine thought or whether his one moment creation was followed up by the literal six days is patristically undecided.


  • Do you believe that the earth and universe are only thousands (not millions or billions) of years old, as measured by Earth time?
    • Yes, and since I am a Geocentric as measured by time anywhere in the universe else too.


  • Do you believe that Adam and his wife Eve were the literal, historic ancestors of all (other) people who have ever lived?
    • Amen, amen.


  • Do you believe that Adam and Eve had no physical parents, but were created directly by God; Adam from the actual dust, and Eve from the actual flesh and bone of Adam’s side?
    • Yes.


  • Do you believe that human physical death began only after Adam sinned?
    • Yes.


  • Do you believe that all animals were originally created vegetarian?
    • I believe that either carnivores were not yet so in Eden, or if they were it was Adam that fed them, designing other animals as their food. But I favour the first theory, since it is supported by early Church Fathers and sticks closer to the text of the Bible.


  • Do you believe that fossils showing evidence of bloodshed and suffering (e.g. half-eaten prey, dinosaur cancers,) could not have been formed before Adam’s Fall led to the Curse?
    • Such waste cannot have been the case even if there were real carnivores in Eden.


  • Do you believe that the Flood of Noah covered the whole globe?
    • Yes.


  • Do you believe that after Lazarus was physically dead for days, Jesus miraculously caused him to regain physical life?
    • Yes.


Comment, the original meaning of the Nine Questions was this:

Nine questions to ascertain whether your future pastor, youth group leader or Bible College principal takes a straightforward view of Genesis


I am not a future pastor, nor a youth group leader (though I hope to be a father some day), nor a Bible College principal (though a Traditional Catholic Seminar could possible get me as a Consultant, once it is clear I am not into celibacy or priesthood myself). I am just a writer. But those too are better if being Traditional about the Literal meaning of Genesis.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
Georges Pompidou Library
All Hallows Day 2013

PS, All Souls' Day, I came to think of a tenth point:

  • Do you believe that you will rise in the same body that now you have?
    • Yes, I believe that whether for glory or for shame, my body will eternally be involved from the day of resurrection.

      C. S. Lewis is a writer many of us, including me, find enjoyable and also instructive. When it comes to Evolution Compromise, he is very instructive in a less enjoyable way insofar as he was (since back from his atheist days) an Evolution believer. But he shows what that leads to in diverse ways, and here we get a glimpse in that passage where he says "we can no longer believe in a literal material resurrection of the body, there would not be enough matter to go around for one thing ..."

      I do not believe the atoms in my body have been circulating for millions of years in and out of other living bodies, nor that men have been around long enough for the atoms in my body to have been recycled from other men. Especially not those that will be in my body when I die as compared to those that were in other men's bodies when they died. Each will get his body back, and for those glorified it will be in the best shape possible.

      No, here I do not hold with C. S. Lewis, but rather with Pope Innocent III. In a Leonine Edition of the Summa, in the footnotes of the Supplementum, I found that Pope Innocent III had imposed on Valdensians returning to the faith a confession against their particular errors which included "I believe I will rise in the same flesh that now I have" (eadem carne ac nunc gero). I hold with that, of course./HGL