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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoNo problem, @Dominik-Niehaus. We’re aware of the spam problem and currently trying to wrangle it. I don’t believe there is a report function, but thank you for bringing this up to me. I will mention it to our team for future myFOSSIL updates. If you notice any other suspicious behavior, feel free to reach out to me, @Sadie-Mills, @mjones, or @macke…[Read more]
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoI’m glad I could help, @Dominik-Niehaus. It’s my job as curator!
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoHi, @Dominik-Niehaus – thank you for your patience. This is much like solving a puzzle for me; luckily, I’m conversational in German as well. It seems like there is no town called “Ron” in France, but there are definitely upper Jurassic strata in southern France. That might be a good place to start searching. As for this fossil entry, I think just…[Read more]
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoThat’s okay, @dominik-niehaus. I’ll go ahead and see what I can find; after some preliminary googling, it seems that there was a large coal mine around Essen called the Zollverein.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoDo you know anything about the geology of Ron, France, @dominik-niehaus? I tried googling that city and it didn’t seem to have any results, so it might have been cut off of a longer city name by myFOSSIL.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoHi @Dominik-Niehaus, can you update the stratigraphic info? Looking at macrostrat, it doesn’t seem to have a formation/unit name near Essen. Googling shows the Essen Formation as being Carboniferous. Do you have any more info? If not, I can help you look for more info.
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Katie Collins posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoHi @dominik-niehaus, big fossil oysters are a hard group sometimes! The best match I can find in the literature from the Eocene-Oligocene of Eckelsheim is Pycnodonte (Crenostrea) callifera, which is about the right size and shape, although the shell is less vesicular than I would expect from a pycnodontine and I can’t make out any chomata. I would…[Read more]
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MacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months ago@i-edwards, @samantha-ocon, @dominik-niehaus and @nathan-newell, Wow, I’m popular today. Yes, I agree with Nathan and Dominik that this is a species of Neuropteris. The midvein of the pinnule attaches to the rachis without any laminar attachment. This, however, is not a fern despite having foliage that looks like ferns. These plants produce seeds…[Read more]
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MacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months ago@dominik-niehaus and @samantha-ocon. Nevermind! It looks like you already have the ID.
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MacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoHi @dominik-niehaus and @samantha-ocon. This is Sigillaria, a club moss tree (scale tree). Nice specimen.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoHi, @Dominik-Niehaus, I’m going to tag in @Bill-Heim!
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months ago@Dominik-Niehaus, thank you! I’m tagging in @David-Clark!
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months ago@Dominik-Niehaus – hmm… it looks like it’s mostly bivalves.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoThat’s perfect, @Dominik-Niehaus! Thank you! I’m interested to see what MacKenzie says.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoHi, @Dominik-Niehaus! I’m gonna tag in @katie-collins-2.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoHi @Dominik-Niehaus! Could you upload a closer photo of the texture on the fossil? That would be useful in double checking the ID! Also, I’m going to tag in myFOSSIL’s resident paleobotanist, @mackenzie-smith.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoHi, @Nathan-Newell, @Dominik-Niehaus, and @I-Edwards! @Mackenzie-Smith might also be able to chime in!
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoHi @Dominik-Niehaus! Commercially purchased fossils are fine if they are acquired legally. For the eMuseum, we like multiple photos of all the sides of the fossil, just so researchers who might be interested in looking at this fossil can see the entire thing.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoHi, @Dominik-Niehaus, are there fossils that are more exposed? That might help with the ID.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoHi, @Dominik-Niehaus, is this a part and a counterpart of the same fossil?
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