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Mackenzie Ross

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Mackenzie Ross

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Gainesvill, Fl
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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 4 months ago

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    @patrick-hsieh and @mackenzie-smith same with this one!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 4 months ago

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    Hi @patrick-hsieh awesome specimen! @mackenzie-smith may be able to help narrow down the ID a little more!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 4 months ago

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    Hi @neven-popov-2 I am going to try and narrow down the lithostrat and geochron of these gastropods for you! Do you have the English term for the location of where these are being found?

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 4 months ago

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    @neven-popov-2 Hi there! You can go ahead and fill in the taxonomic information as Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca and Class: Gastropoda!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 4 months ago

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    Hi! @helen-hopkins Adding location information for all of your fossil find would help a lot with narrowing the ID! Knowing the locations helps to identifying the stratigraphy and time period that a specimen might be from!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 4 months ago

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    Hi there! @helen-hopkins This is a lovely vertebra! Like I mentioned in a prior comment, this would be a case where a scale (like a ruler) helps tell us a lot about the specimen! This photos are also a bit blurry, but @smoran might be able to help with ID. This fossil is rather worn, so it may be be able to be IDed past verterbra!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 4 months ago

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    Hi there @@driss-ouhaddou do you have an location information that you can fill in? This helps with ID!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 4 months ago

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    @helen-hopkins Hi! Generally, when uploading a photo for ID, the photo should be clear, against a simple, neutral color background, and include a scale (like a ruler or coin). This does just look like a conglomerate or rock/concrete with barnacles growing on it, from what I can make out!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 4 months ago

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    Hi @helen-hopkins, as @leonardo-miranda said, @bill-heim or @vperez can help you with the ID for these!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 4 months ago

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    Hi @helen-hopkins there’s not a lot of diagnostic features in this photo! Do you have a photo of the short end? And can you fill out the info of the location of where it was found? This can help with the ID!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago

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    @smoran this one as well!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago

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    Very cool @anthony-gagler, @smoran may be able to help with ID!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago

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    Very cool quartz geode @driss-ouhaddou but this is not a fossil!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago

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    Wonderful! @patrick-hsieh

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago

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    This is a brachiopod @victoria-fowler!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago

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    Hi there @driss-ouhaddou, as @leonardo-miranda said! You have some gastropod shell fossils in there, as well as minerals! For us to ID and catalogue specimen, they must each be posted as there own specimen with their location information inputed!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago

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    Hi there @victoria-fowler looks like some lovely brachiopod imprints!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago

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    @benjamin-devries hi there! It is a little difficult to distinguish any telling features from this photo! When photographing a specimen, putting it on a flat, well lit surface (usually in a constrasting color) with a scale (like a ruler or coin) for reference, can help with ID! If you update this post with those features, perhaps we can help you…[Read more]

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago

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    As stated in the other comments, color can be deceptive when it comes to bones @victoria-fowler! Another way to test them is by weight! As bones mineralize (or fossilize) they become heavier. If you have tile or concrete floors, gently dropping them on it creates a pinging noise that is quite distinctive in fossils! Hope this helps!

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    Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 2 years, 5 months ago

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    This look like iron nodules to me! @liv-nedved

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