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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 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months agoHi @USF-Paleobiology. @Katie-Collins-2 might be able to help with ID.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months agoHi, @USF-Paleobiology! @Katie-Collins-2 should be able to confirm this ID.
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Also looks fine! I’m not exactly an expert on the US Neogene, though, so I’m unclear on why the Paleobiology dept of USF need me to double-check their IDs? I’m sure they have better access to comparative specimens and literature than I do.
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Thank you Katie! This is a very good point and I’ll tag you less with these IDs.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months agoHi, @USF-Paleobiology! This looks good to me, but I have an untrained eye, so I will tag in @Katie-Collins-2 to confirm ID.
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Looks fine to me. Would it be at all possible to get specimen photos rotated to standard, hinge-at-top orientation before posting? I know it seems like a niggly little thing but it really helps facilitate ID checks and comparisons if I don’t have to twist my neck around trying to look at it the ‘right’ way up!
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Thank you so much! From now on we will try to upload photos with standard orientation as well.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months ago@Katie-collins-2, can you help with ID here?
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months agoCan you confirm this ID, @Katie-Collins-2?
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months agoHi, @USF-Paleobiology – this ID doesn’t seem quite correct. Perhaps @Katie-Collins-2 can help us!
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months agoHi, @Hunter-Thurmond! Do you have any photos with better lighting? Also, @Katie-Collins-2, can you confirm this ID? Thank you both!
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I need to figure out a better lighting situation, this is regular flash.
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@Bill-Heim, @Nathan-Newell, and @Delwin-Glasner would probably be able to give you some advice. They’re photo pros.
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Did you retake the pictures because the lighting looks ok to me?
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I didn’t retake them, but I think Nathan’s advice will improve my future pictures.
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@hunter-thurmond Hi, Hunter! Flash can wash out some of the details of fossils, so I use directional lighting. I don’t do anything too fancy, though; I just don’t have the time or money to create an elaborate studio. Here’s my set-up:
https://www.myfossil.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/1564364302809.jpgI use a desk lamp with a movable neck and a…[Read more]
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Nathan thank you! I have done them kind of like that before, I think using a card to reflect light into the shadows and a black velvet background will greatly improve my pictures.
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@hunter-thurmond No problem! Glad I could help!
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It’s definitely a Plicatula! Nice specimen, @hunter-Thurmond 🙂 One further photography tip: bivalves are usually illustrated with the hinge at the top (i.e. 180 degrees to how you have your first and third photos here), and it helps to compare to published illustrations for ID checking if everything is the same way up.
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It’s definitely a Plicatula! Nice specimen, @hunter-Thurmond 🙂 One further photography tip: bivalves are usually illustrated with the hinge at the top (i.e. 180 degrees to how you have your first and third photos here), and it helps to compare to published illustrations for ID checking if everything is the same way up.
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Thank you so much!
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Thank you!
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months ago@katie-collins-2 Can you confirm this ID?
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That’s not a volute, it looks more like a turbinid or other trochoid thing. I’m gonna go see if I can find some info on what’s lurking in the Caloosahatchee that might fit better. Stand by! ETA: should have said this earlier but the preservation doesn’t match what I’ve seen out of the Caloosahatchee either – that preservation of colour patterning…[Read more]
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Thank you!
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Having conferred with a colleague, we think this is certainly not Calloosahatchee formation, and probably not fossil. It’s a turbinid gastropod, but neither of us is familiar enough with the modern USA fauna to ID further. I would send pics to the Florida Natural History Museum: they have the expertise to do a proper ID.
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Thank you so much!
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Thank you so much! Would you like me to take this specimen down or can you suggest who I should contact at FNHM for identification?
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Hi @usf-paleobiology I can’t seem to reply directly to your comment! I would contact Roger Portell to start with, he would be able to tell you who to go to from there. I don’t see any reason you should take the specimen down, but definitely change the taxonomy listed so it doesn’t say Scaphella floridana: this really isn’t a Scaphella! Here’s an…[Read more]
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 3 months ago
4 years, 3 months ago4 years, 3 months agoHi, @usf-paleobiology! @katie-collins-2 should be able to help with the ID of this specimen.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 4 months ago
4 years, 4 months ago4 years, 4 months ago@katie-collins-2 might be able to help us further ID this specimen, @Delwin-Glasner!
The ID listed seems likely to me