Localities in northwest Madagascar have yielded abundant fish fossils from the Triassic period. The fish occur in abundance with ammonites indicating that these fish were marine. The fossils are found in nodules. The above two fossils are from my collection. The top most picture is Australosomus, probably one of the most common fish from these deposits, whilst the lower picture is Perledus.
Rod is part of The geological team at Anglo Gold Ashanti. He is a graduate of the Television Presenting Course at Tv Pro Global, has a Bachelor of Arts and Science in Natural History, Culture and Museum Studies from Macquarie University, along with a Bachelor of Science honours in Zoology from The University of Queensland, and currently working on a Masters of Museum Studies.
Since graduating, Rod has presented across the world at various palaeontological conferences, and has a few peer reviewed science articles in the process of being published.
Rod enjoys all aspects of outdoor life – the more action packed the better.
His current projects include researching Australian Mesozoic Fishes and acid etching of fossil marine limestones from North Queensland.