Armavir club of esotericists, lovers of mysterious and inexplicable facts, the stone was very interested. Alexander Burlutsky (the owner of the find) - an outstanding person, an inventor with a technical education - hospitably invited the Armavir researchers to the house, showing his find. There were several versions of the origin of the artifact, one of which was put forward by Alexander himself.
“In my work, I came across visually similar patterns. For example, this might look like an acoustic delay line. And let it sound like science fiction to you, but I will assume that extraterrestrial intelligence could have left in the distant past on our planet a concentrator of biological energy. Why not?"
Sergei Frolov, a member of the Cosmopoisk group, suggested investigating the find at the Nanotechnology Center of the Research Institute of Nanotechnology and New Materials of the South Russian State Technical University (Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute). As always, science has put an end to the discussions. The answer from the institute was:
"A specimen measuring 15 x 11 x 4.5 cm, gray-brown in color, with a polished platform, is an organogenic material that consists of fragments of skeletons of sea lilies (crinoids) and a subordinate number of valves of small rounded shells up to 1 cm in size." Thus, scientists confidently diagnosed the sample as a fragment of crinoid limestone. And according to the testimony of representatives of the Central Geological Survey Expedition (Essentuki) and taking into account the place of discovery in the basin of the Laba River, they determined the estimated geochronological age - the Silurian-Devonian, that is, 410-450 million years. The very same fragment of the lily stem is presented on the sample along the stem itself in the axial cut.
In scientific terms, sea lilies (Crinoidea) - one of the classes of echinoderms, belong to the number of ancient groups that have long gone through a period of greatest prosperity. In total, there are about 1500 known fossil species from 220 genera. They were widespread in the seas of the Paleozoic (Palaeocrinoidea) and Mesozoic (Neocrinoidea), where they lived in shallow waters.
It all fits together. Indeed, in the water area of our region in ancient times the Tethys ocean splashed. It is sometimes also called the Sarmatian Sea. Today we have built entire cities on its bottom. And this letter-capsule of time came to us not just from the depths of centuries, but also from the receding waters. And from the received document of the Center for Collective Use "Nanotechnologies" we also learned that in the Paleozoic all sea lilies were attached, in the Mesozoic forms without a stem appeared and passed on to the planktonic and pseudoplanktonic way of life. In other genera, the stem was short, and could reach several meters. After death, skeletons of lilies usually crumbled into separate elements. Today, segments of lilies are most often found, and their clusters form crinoid limestones.
Alexander Lopatin, head. Department of Archeology of the Armavir Local History Museum shared information regarding the period of the discovery.
“In the area of the city of Armavir, there are simply unique finds of antiquity. Such as the remains of the vertebrae and limbs of a seal. Today they are kept in storerooms and exhibited in the halls of the local museum.
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We work closely with the Institute of Geology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Together with Tesakov's expedition about five years ago, in the area of the Urup River, we discovered a dolphin's skeleton. The ocean that once raged here then disintegrated into the seas: Black, Azov, Caspian and Aral. And the dried bottom still surprises us today in the form of unique finds. In the halls of our museum, you can see corals, the remains of sea urchins, colonies of fossilized worms. They are just 200 to 400 million years old. This collection has been formed and is being replenished with new items since the 70s of the last century."
When it turned out that this is a fragment of a lily, the reality did not upset Alexander Burlutsky and the members of the esoteric club, because the trace of a living organism is also very interesting! And the fact that the researchers got the find, which is about 400 million years old and made it possible to touch the times when the Caucasus Mountains were born, the landscape changed, the Tethys Ocean changed its position, spilling into three seas, and about humanity at that time nothing is known to science, shook the imagination and therefore we really looked into the period before the birth of mankind.
Sergey Frolov, member of the Russian Geographical Society (RGO) of the city of Armavir