Roger Mason (professor)

Roger Mason (professor)

Professor Roger Mason (born 1940) was the discoverer of Ediacaran fossils. He is now a professor at the China University of Geosciences at Wuhan.

In April 1957, while rock climbing with friends in Charnwood Forest, England, he spotted what looked like a leaf embedded in the rock. He asked Trevor D. Ford of the University of Leicester to examine it. Ford identified it as a Precambrian fossil and named it "Charnia masoni" after the forest and Mason.

References

* "New Scientist", 14 April 2007, p.34, "Life's long fuse"


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