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Sadie Mills posted a new activity comment 2 years, 7 months ago
2 years, 7 months ago2 years, 7 months agoHi Jess! This looks very oyster-like. Maybe @lmccall can help with ID since it’s a Texas specimen? You can also see if the Digital Atlas of Ancient Life can help confirm: https://www.cretaceousatlas.org/classes/bivalvia/.
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Sadie Mills posted a new activity comment 4 years, 4 months ago
4 years, 4 months ago4 years, 4 months ago@lmccall, I think you might be familiar with Castle Hayne, any ideas on this one?
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MacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months ago@delwin-glasner I’ve been looking at another algal body and it seems like they have all have intrusions. I agree with @lmccall because this specimen has protrusions like other echinoderms. Crabby part maybe too?
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months ago@lmccall might also be able to help us narrow down the identification!
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Jennifer Bauer wrote a new post, Riverside California NAPC Convention 2019 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoBy Linda McCall (@lmccall)
It was especially meaningful for me to attend the 50th Anniversary North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC) in Riverside, CA June 23-27 as a guest of the myFOSSIL […]
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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, @lance-comfort – do you have any other images of this fossil? Maybe one from the other side and one showing a lateral view?
You can use Macrostrat to narrow in on the formation you found this in: https://macrostrat.org/map/#/z=11.5/x=-78.6397/y=33.8236/bedrock/lines/Possibly the Peedee formation? Maybe @lcone or @lmccall could chime in with…[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, @kyle-quina – any idea what this is? It looks a little crab-like to me but the images are a bit blurry. Maybe @sadie-mills or @lmccall can help out.
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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, @lmccall – Excellent specimen. Anything you want to update? I will go ahead and make it research grade if you are satisfied with it. We have a Field Notes section now that you may want to include a comment in. Talk to you soon, Jen
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Bill Heimbrock replied to the topic FOSSIL Newsletter in the forum FOSSIL Sustainability 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoI personally have very little free time to be a Myfossil Newsletter editor. I’m having trouble keeping up with the drydredgers.org and geofair.com websites because I do the “Cincinnati Fossils” kits and the resin and plaster 4.5 inch trilobite casts that we now offer to various local shops. I’m sure Jack would love to have a real Dry Dredgers B…[Read more]
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoInteresting fossil, @j-chisholm. Any idea what it might be? I can tag in some folks in the area and some vertebrate people. @jeanette-pirlo@lmccall, @daniel-peters, @vperez
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Jennifer Bauer started the topic FOSSIL Newsletter in the forum FOSSIL Sustainability 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoAre there community members that would be interested in working to sustain the FOSSIL quarterly newsletter?
The current newsletter is aggregated by 3 staff members. The protocol includes reaching out to people for each of the categories, sometimes including prompts with guiding questions to answer, and then assembling the content on the WordPress…[Read more]
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Jennifer Bauer replied to the topic Small Sand Dollar in the forum What Is It? 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoHi, @delwin-glasner, I’m not a modern echinoid expert. Let me see if I can tag some folks in.
@ryan-roney@lmccall do y’all have any ideas?
I found some nice images for the genera but not too much on the species.
Laganum: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/echinoid-directory/taxa/taxon.jsp?id=789
Jacksonaster: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-scie…[Read more]
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoHi, @lmccall, similar to the barnacle I commented on, could you include an image with a scale bar? We also have a new notes section if you had any locality or collection information you wanted to include alongside your specimen data. Talk to you soon, Jen
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoHi, @lmccall, what a nice barnacle specimen! I like the in situ image! Any chance you could upload an image with a proper scale (ruler or coin works, anything measurable by someone else)? Talk to you soon! Jen
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Sadie Mills posted a new activity comment 4 years, 10 months ago
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Jack Kallmeyer posted an update in the group Bookworms 5 years, 2 months ago
5 years, 2 months ago5 years, 2 months agoSince Victor brought up sharks, I thought I’d plug the book, Fossil Fish, Vol III of IV, published by the North Carolina Fossil Club. This book is outstanding for the shark tooth collector (do we have any of those on myFossil???). The plates are all color and the amount of information given is amazing to me for a club published work. it is pr…[Read more]
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Great recommendation, @jkallmeyer! I definitely need to work on my shark tooth identification. My current identification process: ‘does it look shark-y’ and ‘is it pointy’.
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Sadie Mills posted a new activity comment 5 years, 3 months ago
5 years, 3 months ago5 years, 3 months agoOr just a weird rock? @lmccall do you have any suggestions?
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Jennifer Bauer posted an image in the group Meetings and Conferences from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 5 months ago
5 years, 5 months ago5 years, 5 months ago@lmccall presenting her work on color patterns in fossils, particularly echinoids, at the special symposium in honor of Dr. Jim Sprinkle. Wonderful talk and was so excited to see some of the fossils at the Friends of the Echinoderms party!!! #event
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Lisa Lundgren replied to the topic Anything happening in the South East USA in December? in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 5 years, 10 months ago
5 years, 10 months ago5 years, 10 months agoFlorida is actually perfect during the winter for fossil hunting! The Montbrook Fossil Dig from the University of Florida might be of interest to you. @rnarducci was the volunteer coordinator for the dig last year, she might have additional info to help. Here’s a write up about it: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/montbrook/
Also for Florida: T…[Read more]
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Sadie Mills replied to the topic Possible Blister Pearl and/or Pearl Warts from North Myrtle Beach, SC in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 3 months ago
6 years, 3 months ago6 years, 3 months ago@lmccall wanted to add this information to the conversation: “Mercenaria of this type are common in the Waccamaw Formation. I’ve also seen similar ones from Lee Creek Mine (so could be James City). The bryozoan covered gastropods look very like the ones from the Pleistocene, SMR Quarry.”
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Yes my first thought was an urchin spine or seed.
Will change I.D. to Radiola
So sometimes there are plants and animals with the same genus name so is there an echinoderm called Radiola? Because Radiola is also a plant (monotypic genus) that grows in Europe in the family Linaceae and it’s not plant.
Looking at Cidaridae spines on the web at
https://thereaderwiki.com/en/Cidaridae