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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoHi, @bostickkw, Here is a link with the species found in the SE : https://neogeneatlas.net/genera/hystrivasum/ maybe that will help you narrow down the species. If you could provide another image showing the aperture with a scale I can do my best to help as well! Thanks, Jen
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoHi, @bostickkw, Would you be able to include an image with a scale? We also have a new notes section where you could add any information on the collection of the specimen or more locality details, if you wish! Thanks, Jen
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoHi, @bostickkw, my research suggests that the family should be Buccinidae, can you confirm and alter your taxonomic information? Here is a record on iDigBio: https://www.idigbio.org/portal/records/30db083d-220c-4dcd-92fd-93a8a319b7db
I didn’t see a solid match on the Neogene Atlas to get to the species level but here is that link too:…[Read more]
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoHi, @bostickkw, excellent footprint! Is this specimen in situ? If so, it may be best suited to be included in one of our groups rather than as a specimen as those should be in your personal collection. Let me know! Thanks, Jen
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic Tamiami Formation Fossil ID in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months ago@bostickkw, @rleder, @egardner It looks much like some of the primitive sponges we have in our Ordovician rocks. I don’t know about modern bryozoans but the Paleozoic ones have very small zoecia. This seems to have very large openings relatively speaking. You might research sclerosongia and see what you can discover.
Jack
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Kyle Bostick started the topic Tamiami Formation Fossil ID in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months agoSo I found this interesting fossil in the Tamiami Formation, in Southwest Florida outside of Sunniland.
First I found the strange striations on the surface, and used our Geo Dept rock saw to get a better idea of what is is.
My thoughts are that it might be a bryozoan colony or a sponge fossil of some sort. Let me know if this looks like either.…[Read more]
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Kyle Bostick started the topic Tamiami Formation Fossil ID in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months agoSo I found this interesting fossil in the Tamiami Formation, in Southwest Florida outside of Sunniland.
My thoughts are that it might be a bryozoan colony or a sponge fossil of some sort. Let me know if this looks like either. Some say it’s a coral (e.g., @vperez), some say definitely not a coral(e.g., @bostickkw).
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Kyle Bostick started the topic Tamiami Formation Fossil ID in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months agoSo I found this interesting fossil in the Tamiami Formation, in Southwest Florida outside of Sunniland.
My thoughts are that it might be a bryozoan colony or a sponge fossil of some sort. Let me know if this looks like either. Some say it’s a coral (e.g., @vperez), some say definitely not a coral(e.g., @bostickkw).
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Kyle Bostick started the topic Tamiami Formation Fossil ID in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months agoSo I found this interesting fossil in the Tamiami Formation, in Southwest Florida outside of Sunniland.
My thoughts are that it might be a bryozoan colony or a sponge fossil of some sort. Let me know if this looks like either. Some say it’s a coral (e.g., @vperez), some say definitely not a coral(e.g., @bostickkw).
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Raymond Jaquez replied to the topic LITTLE WHITE BALLS IN ROCK in the forum What Is It? 7 years, 1 month ago
7 years, 1 month ago7 years, 1 month agoThank you @egardner and @bostickkw for helping in the identification process. This is the link with a little video I did in order to show more details of the fossil https://vimeo.com/210149486
Have an amazing Sunday!
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic LITTLE WHITE BALLS IN ROCK in the forum What Is It? 7 years, 1 month ago
7 years, 1 month ago7 years, 1 month agoHi, @raymond-jaquez – To me this looks kind of like a fossilized tabulate coral. The little structures look kind of like zooxanthellae to me. I’m not an invert person, though. Perhaps @jkallmeyer, @kyle-hartshorn, or @bostickkw could help?
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Lisa Lundgren posted a new activity comment 7 years, 1 month ago
7 years, 1 month ago7 years, 1 month agoThat sounds excellent, @marie-vahue! myFOSSIL has some Ordovician brachiopods, courtesy of @matthew-croxton and me, and a few Jurassic ones from @bostickkw but I’m looking forward to some more age diversity in the brachs.
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@alycia-stigall might be very interested to see your specimens, @marie-vahue!
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic Can You Dig It? is almost here! in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 7 years, 1 month ago
7 years, 1 month ago7 years, 1 month agoI wonder who all from the myFOSSIL community might be coming to ‘Can You Dig It?’ –
If you’re attending, please tell us what you plan to showcase (if you’re presenting) OR what you’re most looking forward to:
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Lisa Lundgren posted a new activity comment 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months agoWe’ve got a fair number of folks interested in shells on the site–I’d say that @bostickkw has expertise on shells, so you might want to ask him, or maybe @don-megahan@michael-reagin or @scoller! And I’m sure @crobins would be interested in the horseshoe crab!
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Eleanor Gardner started the topic Fossil Specialties + Contacts in the forum What Is It? 7 years, 6 months ago
7 years, 6 months ago7 years, 6 months agoNeed specific help? Try contacting the following folks based upon their specialty:
General Fossil Help
Eleanor Gardner @egardner
Ronny Leder @rleder
Sean Moran @smoran
Sharon Holte @sholte
Jon Cartier @jon-cartier
Daniel Killam @daniel-killam
Justin Tweet @justin-tweet
Walter Stein @walter-stein
Dava Butler @dbutler
Invertebrates:
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Victor Perez started the topic Mystery Fossil for National Fossil Day in the forum What Is It? 7 years, 6 months ago
7 years, 6 months ago7 years, 6 months agoHi Everyone! I found this fossil in Rattlesnake Creek here in Gainesville, FL after Hurricane Matthew. The way it’s broken makes it a tricky one to identify. Let me know what you think it is! I’ve uploaded photos from a few different angles to help you out. It’s about 2 cm vertical length.
@jnance@lcone@cferrara@acurrier@bostickkw@jon-cartier…[Read more]
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Lisa Lundgren posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
7 years, 6 months ago7 years, 6 months agoWe’re at 492 public fossils on myFOSSIL! @lance-comfort, are you going to beat me to uploading the 500th fossil?? I have a couple more from the Dallas Paleo Society field trip last October to upload plus some from a field trip taken with the Dry Dredgers, but I have some work to get to today…
Maybe @don-megahan will beat us both, or @billmoher!…[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner commented on Sue Hirschfeld‘s Fossil #012793 7 years, 6 months ago
7 years, 6 months ago7 years, 6 months agoDr. Hirshfeld has been working on this project and I know she would appreciate any info or ID help. @cameron-schwalbach, @gretchen-gurtler, @lmccall, @gsantos, @bostickkw, @don-megahan, @gwen-daley, @dserratos, @alycia-stigall. Any recommendations for experts we could connect Dr. Hirshfeld with?
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic Tamiami Formation Bivalve in the forum What Is It? 7 years, 7 months ago
7 years, 7 months ago7 years, 7 months agoInteresting find, @bostickkw! I wonder if Roger Portell could weigh in on this? @vperez, would you mind running this by Roger, like you did for Wendell’s question?
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Lisa Lundgren replied to the topic Field Work Photos in the forum Pictures In The Field 7 years, 7 months ago
7 years, 7 months ago7 years, 7 months ago@vperez, @smoran, @bostickkw Nice! Looks like Hurricane Hermine was productive for Rattlesnake Creek. I was reading in some of the Facebook discussions for the Florida Fossil Hunters that it wasn’t as good for other creeks in Gainesville.
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Probably not going to happen any time soon. All my fossils and rocks are packed up in boxes for the big move. Thank you for your interests however
Thanks, Kyle! That’s no problem. So, I’m curating the fossil specimens and it looks like most of yours will need a scale bar. Once you get settled if this is something you want to do, you can add them at any time and they will pop back into the curation queue. I’ll work to check through all your specimens but won’t bombard you with comments. If I…[Read more]
Cool cool cool. I was unaware the scale bar is a requirement to post fossils on this website. Is this a new requirement? I’ve always “tried” to type the dimensions into the appropriate section, but in a couple fossils I did not.
It’s not a requirement for them to be on the site – but it is for the data to be sent off to iDigBio. The images will act as a digital specimen voucher so we want them to be higher quality with useful scales! The dimensions are excellent but I can’t verify them without the scale. Does that make sense? I’m using the images as if they are the…[Read more]