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MacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoHi @jeff-nolder! I just want to confirm the orientation of the synangium (pollen bearing structure) in the matrix. It’s sort of on its side with the cup facing us and the attachment pointing away correct? (I am also tagging @jbauer to keep her in the loop of correspondence.)
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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, @jeff-nolder – really interesting specimen. Are the top surfaces of these weathered so much to obscure the wagon-wheel shape that is very characteristic of archaeocyathids? That’s normally how I recognize them but usually they are embedded where as these are really beautifully popping out of the rock.
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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, @jeff-nolder – do you have another image with a scale bar or ruler? Would be helpful to validate your measurements!
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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, @jeff-nolder – I’d like to tag in @mackenzie-smith our plant expert to check out your fossil!
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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, @jeff-nolder – here is some information I found on the higher order classification: https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=118963
And here the macrostrat database says Conemaugh is a group! https://macrostrat.org/sift/#/strat_name_concept/1821
I’m having a little difficulty seeing the plates on this chiton. Do you have any…[Read more]
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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, @jeff-nolder – here is a possible updated classification for the higher order fields: http://fossilworks.org/?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=199350
Is Conemaugh the Group or Formation? This seems to be variable (in many cases) depending on when it was updated. Here is what I found on Macrostrat: https://macrostrat.org/sift/#/strat_name/442
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoReally nice specimen, @jeff-nolder! Do you have another image with a scale? I’m part of the curation team that is working to verify data submitted through the portal. Really high quality data will be shared with iDigBio and will be more ‘searchable’ by researchers and interested parties.
Let me know if you have any questions,
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 5 years, 7 months ago
5 years, 7 months ago5 years, 7 months ago“Hi, Jen – I donated this specimen to the Virginia Museum of Natural History last year, so I can’t get another pic of it. IIRC the top of the cups were heavily oxidized, but my contact at VMNH is a myFossil member, Alex Hastings – he may be able to help. It’s a pretty specimen, fer sure.”
Thanks for the response, @jeff-nolder. It is great t…[Read more]
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Julie Niederkorn replied to the topic Ordovician, southwestern Wisconsin, in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months agoThanks everyone, I have never collected trilobite fossils before and really appreciate your help. I was wondering if the pygidium is a Thaleops ovata? The cephalon sure looks like the ceraurine-Ceraurus.
<post bump> Any ideas, @jeff-nolder, @asa-kaplan, @jkallmeyer?
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic Figured Specimen, Domatoceras cf. D. highlandense in the forum Pictures In The Field 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months agoWow! @jeff-nolder, that *is* beautiful! Your daughter definitely has talent. Is she thinking about a career in paleoart? If so, we should get her in touch with some of the featured paleoartists in the FOSSIL newsletter!
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Eleanor Gardner posted an update 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months agoHi, @jeff-nolder – I saw on the “backend” side of the website that you sent a feedback note just saying hi; I wanted to be sure to follow up and say hello back! Were you having any website usage problems at the time you sent the feedback? Or just a friendly hello? 🙂 Hope you’re well! Any new field experiences lately?
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Alexander Hastings replied to the topic On the Rocks in the forum Paleontology Field Stories 6 years, 11 months ago
6 years, 11 months ago6 years, 11 months agoHappy to say the fossil arrived safe & sound here in Virginia! Thanks again @jeff-nolder!
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic On the Rocks in the forum Paleontology Field Stories 6 years, 11 months ago
6 years, 11 months ago6 years, 11 months agoHi, @jeff-nolder! Fun idea for a forum! Want to be the moderator? I have some stories I could share too 😉
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Lisa Lundgren posted a new activity comment 6 years, 11 months ago
6 years, 11 months ago6 years, 11 months agoGo Gators! @alexander-hastings, looks like you’re getting a nice specimen for the museum! @jeff-nolder what interested you in sending it off to the museum?
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I got tired of the neat stuff sitting in my basement. Some of it is going to Carnegie, but this one os from VA, and @nathan-newell told me about VMNH. I contacted them and Alex was interested. Lotsa Archies in the Virginia Cambrian, but they’re not often this well-preserved. I’d like this stuff to be available.
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Thanks again, Jeff, we’ll be glad to have it! As you say, it’s a really nice example, and unlike a lot of donations you have a pretty good idea where it came from, so it will definitely be useful. Slight correction, I’m the Curator for Paleontology here at the VMNH, not the director, but thanks for the “promotion”!
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Kent Crippen posted an update in the group Welcome Committee 6 years, 12 months ago
6 years, 12 months ago6 years, 12 months agoWelcome to @jeff-nolder, newest member of the myFOSSIL community!
It is definitely a great fossil! This is now VMNH 99286. Once I figure out how, I can post a picture in top view.
Thanks, Alex! If it is easier you can send me a photo and I can add it to Jeff’s original post =] [email protected]