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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 1 year, 2 months ago
1 year, 2 months ago1 year, 2 months agoWhat a wonderful specimen, @anne-talbot.
Just to share another resource, there is an excellent website through the NHM – https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/echinoid-directory/ that gives you a visual way to identify echinoids! -
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 2 years, 11 months ago
2 years, 11 months ago2 years, 11 months ago@vperez – this is a specimen in the UMMP database, not myFOSSIL – should have specified, sorry. @cindy-lockner – I think you got it! Someone must have dropped the bi- prefix. Thanks for your insight!! Sometimes the typos are just enough that googling simply doesn’t provide any results!
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Jennifer Bauer posted an update in the group What is it? 2 years, 11 months ago
2 years, 11 months ago2 years, 11 months agoHi everyone, I am cleaning up our database and ran into a name I couldn’t find but the specimen is recorded as being from the Miocene of the Calvert Cliffs so I wonder if @vperez or @bill-heim may recognize a typo that is causing my google searches to fail… It is likely (but not necessarily) an invertebrate: Cordula idonea
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Hey Jen! Can you send a link to the specimen in question? I don’t recognize the name either, but may be able to recognize the specimen if I saw it. When I search myFOSSIL for Cordula no results come up.
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Hi Jennifer- could it be Bicorbula idonea?
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@vperez – this is a specimen in the UMMP database, not myFOSSIL – should have specified, sorry. @cindy-lockner – I think you got it! Someone must have dropped the bi- prefix. Thanks for your insight!! Sometimes the typos are just enough that googling simply doesn’t provide any results!
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Thanks for catching that. I was starting to go through my invertebrate references. Fortunately, I took the time to mask up and decontaminate with plenty of sanitizer afterwards.
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years ago
3 years ago3 years agoAh, @patrick-hsieh. Cyrtina makes more sense! Yeah, there are some minor things on your specimen that don’t seem to match any of the genera super well. Sometimes there are just weird forms! I think the diagnostic utility of costae can vary between different brachiopod groups X.x
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years ago
3 years ago3 years agoI agree with the sea urchin identification & double down with @patrick-hsieh‘s suggestion to use and explore the echinoid directory – it’s such a great resource with amazing images. You could update your taxonomy to be Phylum Echinodermata, Class Echinoidea
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years ago
3 years ago3 years agoHi all – interesting finds, @a-trilobite. I think I agree with @nathan-newell on this one – it’s hard to pick out anything that’s definitely biological in these specimens.
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years ago
3 years ago3 years agoThanks for the tag, @matthew-gramling.
I agree with @patrick-hsieh that it is some form of chain coral, Halysites is a good guess – it’s a common genus. -
Jennifer Bauer joined the group Mesozoic Memorabilia 3 years, 5 months ago
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years, 5 months ago
3 years, 5 months ago3 years, 5 months agoThanks @daniel-park! These are relatively old museum dioramas that were made into 3D so we didn’t have much say on the animals! Cenozoic dioramas coming eventually!
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Jennifer Bauer posted an image in the group University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 5 months ago
3 years, 5 months ago3 years, 5 months agoNew Life through the Ages digital dioramas are available on UM Online Repository of Fossils (UMORF). Paleozoic & Mesozoic dioramas are up and in the beta-testing phase so please send along constructive feedback!
https://umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/life-through-the-ages-dioramas/ #fossil #event #collectionsite
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Very awesome! I didn’t have much time when writing this so I just looked at the Devonian one and it was great, but I feel like it should have more weird and wonderful fish in there like Bothriolepis (or maybe there was a Bothriolepis and I missed it). It is the Age of Fish after all. Still amazing job, I’ll make sure to check out the others whe…[Read more]
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Thanks @daniel-park! These are relatively old museum dioramas that were made into 3D so we didn’t have much say on the animals! Cenozoic dioramas coming eventually!
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@jbauer Looks like you got to have some fun over the summer! 😊
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The dioramas look fantastic!!!
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoHi @patrick-hsieh & @smoran – I don’t think it is Cyrtospirifer, there isn’t a clear fold and sulcus like I would expect with that genus. It looks more similar to Platyrachella but again no fold and one valve appears to be pretty flat maybe a little concave? I am not sure it is a spiriferid, why were you thinking that? Maybe some context would help.
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months ago@mark-ryan – this is very interesting. It’s so fun to speculate!!! Especially when everything is so unknown. It’s certainly a possibility that the single star shaped feature is an astrorhizae – but I’ve never only seen one have you? Usually it’s a whole mess across a surface, usually associated with monticules – but these are usuals, there are…[Read more]
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoHi @vperez and @danita-brandt – I can’t say much past what Danita has already guessed. It’s possibly a columnal or a holdfast… certainly echinoderm material but not being super familiar with the location or formation I’m not much use.
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoHi @vperez and @jacob-beasecker – I agree more with Jacob’s identification of Cayugaea. It is difficult to tell with a weathered corallite. Jacob do you have a copy of the Strata and Megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation? It was recently (last 6 ish years) reprinted with really nice images. Talk soon, Jen
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months ago@smoran this is another Atrypida specimen if @jacob-beasecker wants to narrow down the taxonomy to the order, but again – hard to get to a species ID with only one view.
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoHi @smoran I would agree that this seems to be a Pseudoatrypa but it is difficult to confirm species ID from one image. If @jacob-beasecker would like to post additional images I could take another look. Are you from Michigan, Jacob? Glad to see more local fossils on the site!
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoHi all @samantha-ocon@matthew-gramling@sarah-gripe@leonardo-miranda interesting find. I would guess it would be a smushed conulariid (jelly fish relative) or a straight cephalopod. Location indicates probably Mississippian in age.
It looks like a mold which makes it hard to tell but conulariids have perpendicular ornamentation – which you seem…[Read more] - Load More