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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, @cferrara, excellent specimen. Is this part of your personal collection? Any idea of where you collected it or in what type of rock unit? Happy to help if I can! Best, Jen
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Jack Kallmeyer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 10 months ago
4 years, 10 months ago4 years, 10 months ago@daniel-murrhee, @cferrara I thought there were some overbearing rules about artifact collecting in Florida. As in you better not do it. Yes – No? Cool find though. I’d keep it.
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Lisa Lundgren replied to the topic Anything happening in the South East USA in December? in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 5 years, 9 months ago
5 years, 9 months ago5 years, 9 months agoFlorida is actually perfect during the winter for fossil hunting! The Montbrook Fossil Dig from the University of Florida might be of interest to you. @rnarducci was the volunteer coordinator for the dig last year, she might have additional info to help. Here’s a write up about it: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/montbrook/
Also for Florida: T…[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner posted an update 6 years, 5 months ago
6 years, 5 months ago6 years, 5 months agoAlso, I wanted to share this neat article that recently came across my feed. @llundgren, @jeanette-pirlo, @lmccall, @jkallmeyer, @bdattilo, @jbauer, @cferrara, @lcone – I thought you all might appreciate this!
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-scientists-enigmatic-species-utah-million.html
Julien Kimmig is the invertebrate paleontology c…[Read more]
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Thanks – great article.
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Excellent! The story says Llyod Gunther gave thousands of specimens to KU. @egardner have you seen any of his other fossils?
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@llundgren – Not that I’m aware of, but we have 10.2 million specimens spread across 7 buildings on campus sooooo… one day, I’m sure! lol
A quick search on “Gunther” in the invert paleo database shows many donated by Lloyd and his family: https://collections.biodiversity.ku.edu/KUInvertPaleo/
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic FOSSIL Webinar Series in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 6 years, 6 months ago
6 years, 6 months ago6 years, 6 months agoI’m looking forward to the start of the Fall 2017 webinar series, “FOSSIL Roadshow,” scheduled for this Wednesday (Sept 20) at 7pm Eastern! This time I get to participate in the series as a general attendee, instead of working behind-the-scenes. 😉 I believe the first episode will feature Dry Dredgers such as @jkallmeyer, trilobite expert Dr. B…[Read more]
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic Fossil Fakes, Enhancements, and Marriages in the forum Fossil Prep Tips & Tricks Forum 6 years, 7 months ago
6 years, 7 months ago6 years, 7 months ago@egardner, @lcone, @lmccall, @cferrara, @jbauer I hope people get to see the content here. I finally have images for a fossil that inspired me to request this forum: Saccocoma pectinata from Solenhofen. It is almost impossible to find unaltered examples of this pelagic crinoid at shows. In real life, it is very difficult to see the crinoid arm…[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner posted a new activity comment 6 years, 9 months ago
6 years, 9 months ago6 years, 9 months agoThanks for sharing this information, @rnarducci! Hey @cferrara, did you see this post? I know you were wanting to volunteer at Montbrook in the Fall.
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Eleanor Gardner posted a new activity comment 6 years, 9 months ago
6 years, 9 months ago6 years, 9 months agoThis is an interesting question, @sellis. I wonder if @proth or @cindy-lockner or @cferrara might be able to find the answer. What do you all think?
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic Unknown fragment from Aurora, NC Matrix in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 9 months ago
6 years, 9 months ago6 years, 9 months ago@kimberly-huber, @egardner It may be a pecten fragment although the photo gives me the impression it may be a thicker shell of some other ridged type. You might try asking @cferrara or @lcone. These guys are more in tune with these more recent shells.
Jack
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic Need to ID in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 9 months ago
6 years, 9 months ago6 years, 9 months ago@muhammad-usman From what little I know that looks like a soft shelled turtle shell. @cferrara will know better.
Jack
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Field Work Photos in the forum Pictures In The Field 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months agoI had a fantastic time attending the Aurora Fossil Festival yet again and got to collect quite a bit! On Friday we collected at the Belgrade Quarry (first image) and spent some time on the Aurora spoil piles in the evening (second image). On Sunday we collected at Green Mill Run (third image) and visited @george-powell‘s collection (fourth image).…[Read more]
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic Northeastern/North-Central GSA in Pittsburgh, PA in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 6 years, 11 months ago
6 years, 11 months ago6 years, 11 months ago@llundgren, @egardner, @jayson-kowinsky, @cferrara. I finally uploaded mine although I wonder how people can interpret it without my eloquent verbal explanations? 🙂
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Lisa Lundgren replied to the topic Northeastern/North-Central GSA in Pittsburgh, PA in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 7 years ago
7 years ago7 years agoDid everyone who presented receive the email about uploading your powerpoint to the conference website? I just uploaded mine! It’s fairly quick. Uploading these powerpoints is a great opportunity to show the diversity of projects that amateurs and professionals work on.
For examples of what an uploaded presentation looks like, you can view Linda…[Read more]
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Jayson Kowinsky replied to the topic Northeastern/North-Central GSA in Pittsburgh, PA in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 7 years, 1 month ago
7 years, 1 month ago7 years, 1 month agoHey Lisa,
PennDOT blew up most of the marine zone while widening the cut a while back. There are occasionally chunks of marine zone that have fallen that people can search, but chunks of the plant layer are much more common to find.
I was there about a month ago to make sure the site was not blown up…again. I only spent about 15 or so min…[Read more]
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Lisa Lundgren replied to the topic Northeastern/North-Central GSA in Pittsburgh, PA in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 7 years, 1 month ago
7 years, 1 month ago7 years, 1 month ago@egardner, this is excellent, thanks for posting. @jayson-kowinsky, thank you for putting this ID sheet together. I like that there is a QR code on it, too, that’s a great tech aspect.
On the second page, I see the list of the plants and marine fossils that can be found at the site. Are we more likely to find the plants or the marine fossils? Has…[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic Northeastern/North-Central GSA in Pittsburgh, PA in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 7 years, 1 month ago
7 years, 1 month ago7 years, 1 month agoI’ve posted our field trip guide/ID sheet to the myFOSSIL Resources. http://www.myfossil.org/category/document/
Want to get a sneak peek of the locality where we’ll be collecting fossil fern material in PA? Check it out! Many thanks to @jayson-kowinsky for putting the document together!
@llundgren, @bmacfadden, @vperez, @cathy-young, @lmccall,…[Read more]
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Hunter Thurmond replied to the topic Curation of Personal Collections in the forum Digitizing, Photographing, and Curating Fossils 7 years, 1 month ago
7 years, 1 month ago7 years, 1 month ago@jkallmeyer, @rleder, @bheimbrock, @lcone, @george-powell, @lmccall, @cferrara, @walter-stein
Could some of you share your criteria for what you keep and what you discard; and how you discard of it?
After my first fossil trip I ended up with many fragments, half of me wants to keep them all and say each one is special because its 300 million…[Read more]
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Tooth Deformities/Pathologies in the forum The Megalodon Forum 7 years, 1 month ago
7 years, 1 month ago7 years, 1 month ago@lcone@cferrara@mellwood@bkent@teddy-badaut@jnance@jeanette-pirlo@rleder@djehret
I would love to see any deformed/pathologic Megalodon teeth you’ve found and hear your thoughts on what might have caused them!
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Eleanor Gardner started the topic Northeastern/North-Central GSA in Pittsburgh, PA in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months agoWho all from the myFOSSIL community is going to the Northeastern/North-Central GSA joint section meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, this coming March? The FOSSIL Project is hosting a special full-day theme session highlighting partnerships between amateurs and professionals — it should be a great conference!
I know that the following folks will be…[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic FOSSIL Project/Dry Dredgers Mini-Conference, June 3-6, 2016 in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 7 years, 3 months ago
7 years, 3 months ago7 years, 3 months ago@jkallmeyer recently informed me of the sad news that myFOSSIL member @robert-marsh passed away on November 30, 2016. Bob participated in the Cincinnati Mini Conference this past June and his love for fossil collecting was highly evident. Due to health complications, he was unable to clamber over the rocks at our various field trip stops, but Bo…[Read more]
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