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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic Mosasaur Jaw? in the forum What Is It? 3 days, 5 hours ago
3 days, 5 hours ago3 days, 5 hours agoOne of the many Moroccan fakes. The teeth are real mosasaur mated to a faked jaw. Note the sketchy unrealistic material between the brown part of the tooth (the real part) and the jaw. It is possible that they mated the real teeth with a real piece of some kind of jaw bone but these teeth were never in that jaw. You didn’t say what you paid b…[Read more]
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic Mosasaur Jaw? in the forum What Is It? 3 days, 5 hours ago
3 days, 5 hours ago3 days, 5 hours agoOne of the many Moroccan fakes. The teeth are real mosasaur mated to a faked jaw. Note the sketchy unrealistic material between the brown part of the tooth (the real part) and the jaw. It is possible that they mated the real teeth with a real piece of some kind of jaw bone but these teeth were never in that jaw. You didn’t say what you paid b…[Read more]
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Jennifer Bauer posted an update in the group
What is it? 3 years ago3 years ago3 years agoHi everyone, I am cleaning up our database and ran into a name I couldn’t find but the specimen is recorded as being from the Miocene of the Calvert Cliffs so I wonder if @vperez or @bill-heim may recognize a typo that is causing my google searches to fail… It is likely (but not necessarily) an invertebrate: Cordula idonea
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Hey Jen! Can you send a link to the specimen in question? I don’t recognize the name either, but may be able to recognize the specimen if I saw it. When I search myFOSSIL for Cordula no results come up.
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Hi Jennifer- could it be Bicorbula idonea?
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@vperez – this is a specimen in the UMMP database, not myFOSSIL – should have specified, sorry. @cindy-lockner – I think you got it! Someone must have dropped the bi- prefix. Thanks for your insight!! Sometimes the typos are just enough that googling simply doesn’t provide any results!
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Thanks for catching that. I was starting to go through my invertebrate references. Fortunately, I took the time to mask up and decontaminate with plenty of sanitizer afterwards.
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University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 6 months ago3 years, 6 months ago3 years, 6 months agoNew Life through the Ages digital dioramas are available on UM Online Repository of Fossils (UMORF). Paleozoic & Mesozoic dioramas are up and in the beta-testing phase so please send along constructive feedback!
https://umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/life-through-the-ages-dioramas/ #fossil #event #collectionsite
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Very awesome! I didn’t have much time when writing this so I just looked at the Devonian one and it was great, but I feel like it should have more weird and wonderful fish in there like Bothriolepis (or maybe there was a Bothriolepis and I missed it). It is the Age of Fish after all. Still amazing job, I’ll make sure to check out the others whe…[Read more]
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Thanks @daniel-park! These are relatively old museum dioramas that were made into 3D so we didn’t have much say on the animals! Cenozoic dioramas coming eventually!
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@jbauer Looks like you got to have some fun over the summer! 😊
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The dioramas look fantastic!!!
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic TX Echinoid ID? in the forum What Is It? 4 years ago
4 years ago4 years ago@theodore-gray Frankly, they all look alike to me. However, I suggest you obtain a copy of Collector’s Guide to Texas Cretaceous Echinoids by William W Morgan, Schiffer publishing, 2016. He’s got all of them covered.
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Jennifer Bauer posted an image in the group
Paleoart Appreciation from the myFOSSIL app 4 years ago4 years ago4 years agoMade this when I finished my MS in 2014. I made a whole mess and gave them to folks before I left Ohio. I used to love little fossil craft projects!! #fossil
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University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology from the myFOSSIL app 4 years ago4 years ago4 years agoThe UMMP is currently closed amid the COVID-19 crisis and I am largely working from home. I’ve been scanning in old loan documentation for my students to transcribe remotely. Here is an example of a specimen loan invoice from 1964 of some brachiopods! #event #method
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Jennifer Bauer replied to the topic Need Help Help identifying a tooth in the forum What Is It? 4 years ago
4 years ago4 years agoHi all- sorry for the delay, I don’t believe it is from an invertebrate. Certainly it is not an echinoderm! Really interesting specimen, thank you for uploading so many images!
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Jennifer Bauer and
Ian Forsythe are now friends 4 years, 2 months ago
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic Trilobite Prep in the forum Fossil Prep Tips & Tricks Forum 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months ago@samantha-ocon , @sadie-mills I have an answer for you. I got the following information from one of the prep lab people who actually use these tools:
The normal tool we use is Chicago Pneumatic scribe which comes in any number of sizes depending on what you want to use it for. Paleo Tools has a wide selection of the Chicago and also se…[Read more]
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic Trilobite Prep in the forum Fossil Prep Tips & Tricks Forum 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months ago@samantha-ocon I could check to see what they use in the Cincinnati Museum prep labs. Maybe that will help. I am laid up with a foot injury so I’ll have to get one of my friends to check.
Jack
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic Trilobite Prep in the forum Fossil Prep Tips & Tricks Forum 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months ago@samantha-ocon I am sorry I can’t offer any help along those lines. I don’t use this type of equipment as it isn’t generally needed for most fossils around here. “hard core” people who do lots of this type of work are the ones who use these. If you do get one of these remember that you still need a strong suction device pulling away the mat…[Read more]
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Don’t ignore his advice on the dust. Safety glasses as well. Cheap air scribes are available, but the metal used in the tip may not have the best metallurgy.
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@david-coxiii, @samantha-ocon I know of a mineral collector who did some lapidary work and had used a wet diamond saw. He breathed the water spray that comes off the saw over many years. This spray contains fine rock dust. He now has a serious lung disease.
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University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 4 months ago4 years, 4 months ago4 years, 4 months agoMacroporaster species from the systematic collection of the UMMP! Using food coloring on echinoderms is a historical way to even out colors & bring features to light for specimen photography. #fossil
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Jennifer Bauer wrote a new post, myFOSSIL eMuseum and Curation Team 4 years, 4 months ago
4 years, 4 months ago4 years, 4 months agoBy Jennifer Bauer (@jbauer)
Research Museum Collections Manager, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and former FOSSIL Postdoctoral Associate
The myFOSSIL eMuseum has undergone some […]
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University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months agoToday’s #DayOfScience started with editing Sam’s #NSFGRFP application, catching up on emails, and preparing a new loan invoice for the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. Now that I got that situated I can work with some specimens for a while!
This drawer has been sitting out in the collection space because a summer visitor was…[Read more]
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University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months agoFrom the end of the day yesterday:
The last bit of my #DayOfScience Scienceathon is going to be spent looking through some of the #UMichPaleo #Devonian collections and recording what is where!
These specimens have undergone two major moves across campus in the past year to end up in this nice off-campus facility. Much of our stratigraphic…[Read more]
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University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months agoTo start my first #DayOfScience I wanted to start by answering what a collection manager actually… manages. This will vary between institution and position but is generally true. Most facilities have many cabinets of fossils, check out some of my awesome compact-able cabinets! The foundations of a collection manager position are with cataloging,…[Read more]
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