An updated study on a possible Carboniferous Human Femur Fossil

An Updated Study on a Possible Carboniferous Human Femur Fossil
Last updated: Jan. 26, 2009
By Lin Liangtai
Summary

Mr. Ed Conrad, the discoverer of the subject material, has claimed he
has found thousands of “fossils” in the Mahanoy City and Shenandoah
region of Pennsylvania, USA. Before this study, the author has studied
over 20 different specimens of those “fossils” and found they are all
animal fossils –some human-- well preserved down to the microscopic
level. The subject material was still partially embedded in an immense
piece of slate in the Carboniferous rock layer when it was first
photographed. The author found it was a fossil because it contained
Haversian canals, which are found only in animals’ compact bones. It
belonged to a mammal because it possessed plentiful remains of
scarlet, round, anucleate and concave cells, which were red blood
cells found only in mammals. It was possibly a fossilized human femur
bone because it displayed the following features: (1) It is nearly
straight, round and quite slender, with maximum length estimated at 52
centimeters, and mid-shaft diameter of 3.3 centimeters; (2) It bears
close resemblance to a right femur of a Peking Man and to an
educational model of human femur, and the average diameter of its
shaft is smaller than 7% of its maximum length ; (3) It possesses
plentiful round, anucleate and concave red blood cell remains as large
as eight micrometers in diameter. Only human femur bones fully meet
the above three features. The author has searched various fossil
records and data banks, but found no other mammals possessed a bone
that displays the above three features or the first two features in
the case of an extinct mammal. So, it could be a femur of a new
species of Carboniferous mammal with human calvarium.