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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 5 months ago
4 years, 5 months ago4 years, 5 months agoI’m thinking this could be a stromatoporoid? I am unsure – it almost looks like a really badly weathered tabulate coral, but it is pretty big. Let me tag in some other Paleozoic pals – @cameron-muskelly, @mackenzie-smith.
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Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 4 years, 6 months ago
4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months agoGreetings @cameron-muskelly! This specimen was discovered just outside of LaFayette in Walker County. The matrix is either Upper Ordovician or Lower Silurian. My working hypothesis is “Chickamauga Limestone.”
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 6 months ago
4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months ago@Cameron-Muskelly is waaay more versed in this area than I am. Paging him for some identification help.
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Thank you @samantha-ocon!!!
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Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 4 years, 6 months ago
4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months agoThank you @cameron-muskelly!!!
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Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 4 years, 6 months ago
4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months ago@Samantha-Ocon and @Cameron-Muskelly. Thank you for the help. I will be sure to post more images of it asap. I’ll also give my justification for an Ordovician date.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 6 months ago
4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months agoSame here, @Matthew-Gramling. @cameron-muskelly
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 6 months ago
4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months agoCool specimen, @Matthew-Gramling. @Cameron-Muskelly might be able to help you narrow down the taxonomy of this specimen even further. It would also be really helpful if you added images of the top side!
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 6 months ago
4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months agoHi, @Meredith-Jones, @cameron-muskelly might be able to help you narrow down the identification of these specimens.
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Hi, @Meredith-Jones, do you think you could upload a more high resolution image?
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 6 months ago
4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months agoHi, @Meredith-Jones, @cameron-muskelly might be able to help you narrow down the identification of these specimens.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 6 months ago
4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months ago@cameron-muskelly should also be able to help with identification.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 6 months ago
4 years, 6 months ago4 years, 6 months agoHi, @Meredith-Jones, @cameron-muskelly might be able to help you narrow down the identification of these specimens.
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Asphelaspis brachyphasis are the names of the trilobites you have found. They are very common. So common they have their own zone. They were first know from rocks in Nevada. You are in the Middle Cambrian portion of the Conasauga Shale Formation which is ~497 million years old. This is the younger portion of that rock unit. The other portion is…[Read more]
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Awesome! Thank you…I just shared all that info with my SciOly student 🙂
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoReally excellent specimen, @cameron-muskelly. Could you post a few more images from different angles of the specimen?
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoAwesome, @cameron-muskelly – did you get a lot of traffic?
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James Parks posted a new activity comment 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months ago@cameron-muskelly thanks man! I’ll send them to him along with info of where I found them.
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoHi, @cameron-muskelly – Age refers to the name rather than exact number. I can move this to the field notes section, if you are okay with that? Did you need some help with identification? I can tag in our shark experts. Talk to you soon, Jen
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoVery cute Elrathia, @cameron-muskelly! Would you be able to upload another fossil and other details such as classification, location, and geologic context data? This is easy to do on the myfossil.org website! Talk to you soon, Jen
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoHi, @cameron-muskelly – Did you want to add in some more details on this specimen? This is pretty easy to do on myfossil.org let me know if you have any questions or need some help! Talk to you soon, Jen
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Jennifer Bauer replied to the topic FOSSIL Newsletter in the forum FOSSIL Sustainability 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoHi, @joyce-drakeford
It would be excellent if you would be the lead coordinator. I think you will still need to recruit several volunteers to help manage the content. So, we have an ad going out in the next Dry Dredgers bulletin – thanks to @bheimbrock – and we have a social media announcement for volunteers that is going out on Monday.…[Read more]
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Joyce Drakeford replied to the topic FOSSIL Newsletter in the forum FOSSIL Sustainability 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoSee above 🙂
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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 @cameron-muskelly – Awesome fossil! When you get here I can show you how to edit this information on the website. We don’t want a value in the ‘Age’ field but rather the geologic time bin of age so the lowest unit for geochronology. I think the Wheeler Shale is in Series/Epoch 2 of the Cambrian but am not sure of the age. We can also fill in…[Read more]
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@delwin-glasner, I agree with @samantha-ocon with the stromatoporoid. My initial thought was bivalve but there is structure that looks spongey.
Was led to this location by Dr. Zingala and he I.D. as a Sponge on our class field trip, I just don’t know name.