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Matthew Gramling posted a new specimen in the group Bodacious Brachiopods from the myFOSSIL app. 4 years ago
4 years ago4 years agoMatthew Gramling has contributed specimen mFeM 67091 to myFOSSIL!
Matthew Gramling posted a new specimen in the group Bodacious Brachiopods from the myFOSSIL app. 4 years ago
Matthew Gramling has contributed specimen mFeM 67091 to myFOSSIL!
Platystrophia of North America have been reassigned to Vinlandostrophia : http://www.eap.ee/public/Estonian_Journal_of_Earth_Sciences/2007/issue_1/earth_2007_1_3.pdf
A difficult switch for many of us. I think these are largely Ordovician forms but may be a good reference nonetheless: https://www.uky.edu/KGS/fossils/fossil-month-07-2018-vinlandostropia.php
Greetings @jbauer! Thank you greatly for the correction and the informative links!!! From your assessment, would you say the specimen here is an external mold of the pedicle vavle of a Vinlandostrophia species?
Not a problem! Many of us still agonize over this name change but we should stay up to date – as much as we can – with taxonomy. Yes, I completely agree with you. It’s difficult to further identify it to a species level because we are lacking diagnostic views!!
Fantastic! And I am sure dealing with taxonomic changes is quite the headache. And how could I go about providing a diagnostic view? There is a great little USB microscope I’ve been considering ordering. A friend of mine and I used it to magnify a trilobite that was 4 mm long and it brought into magnificent to detail.
Oh wow! That’s so fun! I think with this one we are out of luck. The views would be along the commissure where the two valves meet, along the hinge line, and then a full view of both valves. Scroll down this page to see an example: http://www.ordovicianatlas.org/atlas/brachiopoda/rhynchonellata/orthida/platystrophiidae/vinlandostrophia/vinlandostrophia-clarksvillensis/
Greetings @jbauer! Thank you again for the link! Also, here is the microscope I was talking about if anyone is interested:
https://www.amazon.com/Microscope-ONETEKS-Magnification-Megapixels-Professional/dp/B07V5F71BV