martins is showing his successor tom hooper the borough mocker quarry a fossil site close to the town tom bhakti tot's who is taking over as the paleontologist at clayton stein castle in go top home to 290000000 year old treasures from the lower permian period martin spent 40 years digging through the earth's history on the site and who know hopes his time will be similarly fruitful . the bone marker in the thuringia forest is a very special fossil locality. you could say the bra macher is the only lower permian locality in the world well track sprints and the track makers that is skeletons basically be found in one layer. to fit and this group used to be a common academic consensus was that no one would ever find body fossils in this kind of reddish brown vine green rocks. i guess some academic opinion shouldn't be written in stone. of. thomas martin showed the consensus to be mistaken with the help of a bone he found as a young geologist at the bro market quarry in 1974. we weren't actually looking for bones for execution it happened by coincidence one from the 1st i didn't recognize it as a b