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Tyler Busch posted a new specimen. 3 years, 3 months ago
3 years, 3 months ago3 years, 3 months agoTyler Busch has contributed specimen mFeM 53150 to myFOSSIL!
Tyler Busch posted a new specimen. 3 years, 3 months ago
Tyler Busch has contributed specimen mFeM 53150 to myFOSSIL!
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Hi, @tyler-busch – Do you remember the locality you were collecting in? You can use Macrostrat to zoom in on your location and get a better idea for the geologic context : https://macrostrat.org/map/#/z=10.6/x=-82.3217/y=29.7107/bedrock/lines/
I’ll tag in @fauve-wilson and @vperez our local experts to check on your identification.
Talk to you soon,
Jen
It tends to be fairly difficult to identify stingray tail spines past the order Myliobatiformes. I have seen one paper that describes differences between different species. But that may not be possible since the tip of your specimen is broken. The paper I read is called “Tail spine characters of stingrays (order Myliobatiformes) frequenting the…[Read more]