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May 29, 2020 at 10:18 pm #70937Eleanor GardnerModerator
No, this forum is referring to the Martin-Marietta owned Belgrade Mine in Jones County, North Carolina.
You can read more about the mine here: https://www.myfossil.org/featured-fossil-rare-extinct-land-mammal-from-belgrade-north-carolina/
May 16, 2018 at 2:07 pm #36128Eleanor GardnerModeratorSounds like tough work, @timothy-carroll! I’m not familiar with the Gull River Formation. What is its age and what is it known for, fossil wise?
April 6, 2018 at 1:34 pm #34532Eleanor GardnerModeratorHi, @matthias-beckham! Thanks for posting in the “What Is It?” forum. Maybe @smoran, @dserratos, or @walter-stein might be able to help you get an ID on this fossil.
April 6, 2018 at 1:31 pm #34531Eleanor GardnerModeratorThanks for sharing, @evan-walsh. I wonder if you’ve gotten connected with @walter-stein or @jason-schein? I know that they both frequently take groups out for digs, and that many of the specimens go to research institutions.
December 4, 2017 at 10:42 am #29518Eleanor GardnerModeratorHey, @mackenzie-smith – Do you have any recommendations for Wendell @wendell-ricketts?
I’m thinking the Northwest Paleontological Association might be the closest club. @paul-kester, meet Wendell Ricketts, a fossil hound and the publisher of the revived Fossil News magazine; he previously lived in Florida and now lives in Seattle!
Another relatively close club is NARG. @acurrier, meet Wendell!
December 4, 2017 at 10:36 am #29517Eleanor GardnerModeratorHi, Wendell @wendell-ricketts:
Sorry for the hiccup with notifications! It might have been because you joined prior to automatic notification systems being put in place (?).
Did you move to Seattle recently? I saw that you mentioned that you’re “settled in Seattle.” If so, congrats on the move! I myself recently left Florida for Lawrence, Kansas, where I’m now working at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum.
Sorry to hear that GSA makes things too complicated to get Fossil News on display. 🙁
November 27, 2017 at 2:21 pm #29402Eleanor GardnerModeratorHi, all! @llundgren, @sadie-mills, @asa-kaplan, @mackenzie-smith, @jeanette-pirlo, @lcone, @george-powell
Apologies for the delayed response. I hope that everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving had a terrific holiday! I know that I enjoyed lots of delicious turkey… And speaking of, here are some random factoids about turkeys! 😉
Turkeys belong to the order Galliformes (ground dwelling / game birds), which also includes pheasants, grouse, guinea fowl, chickens, quail, etc. True turkeys probably arose around 10 million years ago, give or take — although turkey-like birds arose around 20 mya. Lucky for me, fossils of the modern turkey (Meleagris sp.) can be found in my new home state of Kansas! There are a variety of subspecies of turkey, several of which are now extinct such as Meleagris californica – the California turkey. The California turkey went extinct about 10,000 years ago and fossils of M. californica are the second most abundant at the La Brea Tar Pits (cool!!). As you might imagine, based on the zooarchaeological record, there is quite a lot of knowledge about the various turkey subspecies that have served as food sources for humans over time. If you find yourself interested in the taphonomy and preservation potential of bones of game birds, I recommend reading Dirrigl’s 2001 paper that examines bone mineral density in M. gallopavo and makes connections to differential survivorship of bird bones in the zooarchaeological (and potentially, fossil) record. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440300906009
And, for fun, here is an article discussing how scientists studying biomechanics are putting turkeys on treadmills to examine bipedal bone structure: https://massivesci.com/articles/turkey-treadmill-ancient-humans-walk/
I’m looking forward to the webinar on Wednesday! It might be too late to make this request, but I’d like to learn about the fossil records of carrots and of turnips. Why? Carrots and turnips is a traditional Northeastern dish that my husband’s family makes (they’re from Massachusetts).
Lastly, to @asa-kaplan’s request about receiving event updates… @mjones, @epoirier is there a plug-in that could send updates via the myFOSSIL notification system when event details have changed?
Or maybe @sellis could send out a short email blast via MailChimp when webinar dates change?? I’m not sure if the social media team (@llundgren, @sadie-mills, @michael-le, @mackenzie-smith) might want to make Facebook “events” for the webinars? We use FB to promote events for the KU Natural History Museum and it seems to generate quite a bit of traffic for us.
November 6, 2017 at 2:02 pm #29014Eleanor GardnerModeratorLate to the conversation on the pterosaur paper, @llundgren, my apologies. Having done this type of review paper myself (but on the avian fossil record), I agree that a “Lagerstätten effect” likely impacts our understanding of many fossil taxa, including pterosaurs, birds, and amphibians. It is not surprising that the statistical analyses in this study showed that completeness of specimens through time was influenced by Lagerstätten distribution. However, because in my study I found that avian fossil specimens from Lagerstätten were much more likely to represent locations and time periods with warm and humid climates compared to cool and/or dry climates, I would be interested to know the climate data for the pterosaur Lagerstätten sites (many of which I’ll bet are the same as the bird sites).
Also, an off-topic word of caution: the PaleobioDB is not error-free. I found a variety of instances where formation, age, environment, or other information had been keyed into the database incorrectly. That meant that my coauthors and I had the pleasure of carefully reading each of the 398 publications included in our study and making our own database (no small task!).
October 19, 2017 at 11:01 am #28588Eleanor GardnerModeratorMy go-to’s are PLOS ONE and Palaeontologia Electronica (side note: I feel like the journal should officially change the name, as so many people add an extra “c” at the end of Palaeontologia – it is a super common error!).
When I taught geology at the university level, I frequently incorporated peer-reviewed publications into assignments. I’m curious to learn how K-12 teachers might do the same. Perhaps @groberti could give some insight, as she crafted a high school lesson plan that did this (https://www.myfossil.org/paleontology-in-the-real-world-using-the-recent-paleontological-literature-to-engage-high-school-students-and-encourage-stem-based-learning/).
October 12, 2017 at 6:15 pm #28507Eleanor GardnerModeratorAs @kcrippen noted, Max Jones (@mjones) and Eric Poirier (@epoirier) are the external web developers and they should be able to give you some more information about the AC wizard design. To my knowledge, AC data capabilities exist but are not currently being utilized — that will be implemented in the future with a redesign of the Fossil Gallery. However, @mjones did a lot of research and should be able to tell you more of the nitty-gritty details about crafting the wizard.
September 18, 2017 at 11:54 pm #28079Eleanor GardnerModerator@asa-kaplan – The webinar series is one that FOSSIL typically offers each semester (usually once per month for 4 months). In Fall 2016, the theme was “Fundamentals of Fossils.” In Spring 2017, the theme was “Women in Paleontology.” This semester’s theme is the “FOSSIL Roadshow,” which is modeled loosely after PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” tv show. Here is a link to the Events Calendar item with a link to connect live on Wednesday night: https://www.myfossil.org/event/fossil-project-webinar-fall-2017-series-fossil-identification/.
September 18, 2017 at 2:10 pm #27895Eleanor GardnerModeratorI’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. Brenda Hunda, as well as myFOSSIL members like @matthew-croxton.
Who else will be attending? Will you be there, @kyle-hartshorn, @lmccall, @cferrara, @lcone, @george-powell, @jayson-kowinsky, @lynn-moore, @tmorgan, @llundgren, @don-muller, @jim-chandler, @christine-verdi, @skillingsworth, @rmanning, @lance-schnatterly, @joyce-drakeford, @mackenzie-smith, @asa-kaplan ?
What are you looking forward to learning about?
September 18, 2017 at 1:51 pm #27893Eleanor GardnerModerator@jeanette-pirlo, @cindy-birkner – The images show two different specimens, correct? The coloration and shape certainly look different. The first picture looks like a gastropod cast to me. I’m not sure what the second and third pictures are. @vperez, @rleder, @aaron-woodruff – any ideas??
September 18, 2017 at 12:58 pm #27892Eleanor GardnerModeratorHi, @mackenzie-smith! I recently toured the paleobotany collections here at the KU Natural History Museum. Do you know Rudy Serbet? He showed me lots of sample of permineralized wood (as well as fern impressions) from the Pennsylvanian of Kansas.
Slightly unrelated, but still interesting: Rudy mentioned an acid peel technique on coal balls as a method that paleobotanists use to better image the plants preserved inside the coal ball. Have you ever done this technique?
September 18, 2017 at 12:50 pm #27891Eleanor GardnerModeratorHi, @mackenzie-smith! I haven’t collected any fossils from accreted terrains in the northwest, but I am interested to learn more. Could you share picture or two of what fossils from terranes in the northwest look like? I’m thinking of the “squeezed” looking trilobites from the Conasauga shale in Georgia, which look squeezed due to low-grade metamorphic forces during regional mountain uplift. However, that visual picture in my brain may be way off base for fossils from accreted terranes.
August 29, 2017 at 12:54 pm #25219Eleanor GardnerModeratorWow, @jkallmeyer, thanks for sharing this side-by-side comparison. In my opinion, the unaltered specimen is much lovelier. The drawn extended pinnules on the altered specimen look especially fake to me. However, I can certainly appreciate that someone else might not be familiar enough to recognize that and be duped. Unrelated, but curious: Have you ever been to the Solenhofen site?
August 25, 2017 at 3:16 pm #25136Eleanor GardnerModeratorHi, all! Reviving this thread to share the following story that was published via Wired Magazine today: https://www.wired.com/story/why-men-dont-believe-the-data-on-gender-bias-in-science/. Although it highlights problems in engineering specifically, the problem is broadly applicable across all areas of STEM.
Over the years, I’ve sadly encountered many people who simply discount gender bias in science (and particularly in paleontology). I’m curious to learn more about what was covered at the SVP diversity & inclusion workshop!
@taorminalepore, @gsantos, @sboessenecker, @rboessenecker … who else from myFOSSIL attended the workshop?August 18, 2017 at 12:24 pm #24919Eleanor GardnerModeratorHi, @george-gough! Thanks for sharing this forum idea. I agree that it is critically important for scientists and researchers to be able to communicate effectively to the public. Would you be interested in ‘chairing’ this forum and contributing to it? Perhaps you could find resources online and share them with the myFOSSIL community.
August 18, 2017 at 11:35 am #24918Eleanor GardnerModeratorHi, @denise-porcello! Thanks for posting your questions/images in the ‘What Is It?’ forum.
@vperez, @proth, @smoran – can any of you help out Denise with IDs?August 18, 2017 at 11:23 am #24917Eleanor GardnerModeratorWow, @jayson-kowinsky, those are some awesome pictures! And your video – whoa! I agree with @julie-niederkorn… no blackwater diving for me, thanks! Where are you headed for your next adventure?
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