Field guide No. 307

The wall of a white stone quarry holds the fossil of a single feather the size of the cliff, lit by sunrise. The rest of the bird is presumably further in.

Giant feather fossil at dawn

Whatever lost this was big.

The wall of a white stone quarry holds the fossil of a single feather the size of the cliff, lit by sunrise. The rest of the bird is presumably further in.

Field noteFeathers fossilise. A feather this big needs a bird this big, which nobody has found.

Specimen
No. 307
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Scale
Where it doesn’t exist
A white stone quarry at sunrise.
Nearest existing relative
A fossil feather.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking scale