Dinosaur fossils in the Philippines

[Hitchiker]

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Hi. Do you guys know someone who has found a dinosaur fossil in the Philippines?

[emailroy2002]

I haven't heard of archaeologist looking for dino's here in phil. maybe they haven't been here.

murag naa ra na sila sa mga dakong continente.

[cromagnon]

From my other Thread, philippines was under water , during Jurassic times. islands only sprout out after millions of years of Sea Subduction . thats y in theres lots of corrals on our mountains .

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i guess fossils that can be found here are early mamals..

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WERE THERE DINOSAURS IN THE PHILIPPINES?
By: Carla M. Pacis

The Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old. Most of what we call the Philippines was formed by the Pleistocene Epoch that is about ten million years ago. This makes the Philippines a very young archipelago compared to Europe, North America and other continents where dinosaurs have been found. The dinosaurs lived billions of years before the Pleistocene Epoch in what is called the Jurassic Epoch, So to the question, did the Philippines have dinosaurs? The answer is no. But we did have some other very interesting creatures.

In the Pleistocene Epoch, the Philippines was connected to the large continent of Asia by land bridges that many times were underwater. But as the sea levels rose and fell, land bridges were exposed. These became the paths by which large migrating mammals found their way to the Philippines from Indonesia or as far away as New Guinea. One of these mammals was the Elephas Sp. It stood about 10 to 12 feet tall and is very similar to the elephant we now know. The other was the Stegodon Sp., a much older cousin of the Elephas Sp. They roamed the area we now know as the Cagayan Valley together with other mammals such as the rhinoceros, giant land turtles with flat carapaces (Ed. This is the protective shell on the back of turtles), wild pigs, deer and eventually, man.

In this epoch, humans moved around all the time, hunting and gathering food. They lived in caves, used fire and made stone tools. They hunted the Elephas and other creatures. Paleontologists have not been able to find a complete set bones of any of the large mammals that migrated to the Philippines because most have been destroyed by rain and erosion throughout so many years. But they have found enough fossils that prove they were once here. Some of these fossils are now on display at the Museum of the Filipino People and at the Fossil Room of the National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS) at the University of the Philippines. END







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[silentnuker]

s0 far n0 din0saur f0ssils found here in Philippines...at least n0thing that we have heard.

[Hitchiker]

From my other Thread, philippines was under water , during Jurassic times. islands only sprout out after millions of years of Sea Subduction . thats y in theres lots of corrals on our mountains .

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i guess fossils that can be found here are early mamals..

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WERE THERE DINOSAURS IN THE PHILIPPINES?
By: Carla M. Pacis

The Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old. Most of what we call the Philippines was formed by the Pleistocene Epoch that is about ten million years ago. This makes the Philippines a very young archipelago compared to Europe, North America and other continents where dinosaurs have been found. The dinosaurs lived billions of years before the Pleistocene Epoch in what is called the Jurassic Epoch, So to the question, did the Philippines have dinosaurs? The answer is no. But we did have some other very interesting creatures.

In the Pleistocene Epoch, the Philippines was connected to the large continent of Asia by land bridges that many times were underwater. But as the sea levels rose and fell, land bridges were exposed. These became the paths by which large migrating mammals found their way to the Philippines from Indonesia or as far away as New Guinea. One of these mammals was the Elephas Sp. It stood about 10 to 12 feet tall and is very similar to the elephant we now know. The other was the Stegodon Sp., a much older cousin of the Elephas Sp. They roamed the area we now know as the Cagayan Valley together with other mammals such as the rhinoceros, giant land turtles with flat carapaces (Ed. This is the protective shell on the back of turtles), wild pigs, deer and eventually, man.

In this epoch, humans moved around all the time, hunting and gathering food. They lived in caves, used fire and made stone tools. They hunted the Elephas and other creatures. Paleontologists have not been able to find a complete set bones of any of the large mammals that migrated to the Philippines because most have been destroyed by rain and erosion throughout so many years. But they have found enough fossils that prove they were once here. Some of these fossils are now on display at the Museum of the Filipino People and at the Fossil Room of the National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS) at the University of the Philippines. END







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Do you know of any specific sites where the fossils were found? Aside from Cagayan Valley. Are trackmarks considered as fossils too?

[geo25]

Wala man tngali. Pero naa elephants, rhinos ug stegodons. I think sa Grade 4 Civics and Culture class ug Grade 7 Philippine History class na discuss.

[enimavix]

Interesting thread. wa ko kebaw ana until now. hahaha.

[emailroy2002]

naa cguro mga large sea creatures fossil pero murag na disentigrate na kay high salinated water sauna, imong makitan kay di na prestine conditon di pareha north og european kay naka baon sa rocks or hardened magma from sudden volcanic eruption before.


so if naa man gani not worth to study kay pino2x siya.. and di na ma assemble...

[carmicael]

naa cguro mga large sea creatures fossil pero murag na disentigrate na kay high salinated water sauna...

actually, no. on the contrary, the sea floor is one of the most ideal places for fossilization.

[bzseal]

Naa man dinosaur sa senado. Si enrile. Hehehe joke!