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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoHi, @jami-williams – do you remember where you found this specimen? Do you have an image of the other side? Or an image with a scale? All of these things help our team of curators better verify and help curate your information!
Talk to you soon,
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoHi, @jami-williams – Can you explain what this is? The image is blurry and doesn’t appear to be a fossil to me. Talk to you soon, Jen
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MacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoHi @jami-williams! @jbauer is correct, this is from the genus Metasequoia. The species is M. occidentalis. Oregon also has M. foxii which has longer leaflets. The shale is from the Big Basin Member of the John Day Formation which is early Oligocene (Rupelian), 33 Ma. Also for future reference, when imaging a fossil preserved in shale you can just…[Read more]
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoHi, @jami-williams – do you remember where you found this specimen? It looks like part of a soft shelled turtle carapace to me. @jeanette-pirlo can confirm since she gave me all the turtle knowledge.
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoHi, @jami-williams – I think this is a Metasequoia specimen, @mackenzie-smith is a PNW local who can confirm.
Here is some information on the taxonomy: https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=55255Also here is some fun information:…[Read more]
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 5 years, 6 months ago
5 years, 6 months ago5 years, 6 months agoHi @jami-williams and @helen-harless – did y’all still need identification help? @vperez might be able to confirm this identification and/or help point you in the right direction.
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Kent Crippen posted an update in the group Welcome Committee 6 years, 9 months ago
6 years, 9 months ago6 years, 9 months agoWelcome to @jami-williams newest member of the myFOSSIL community!
Not Negaprion, it is a Carcharhinus species. It needs to be cleaned to obtain a better ID.