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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic Tamiami Formation Fossil ID in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months ago@jkallmeyer and @rleder, do either of you have an opinion on this fossil that Kyle Bostick found?
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic Help to ID in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months agoHi, @muhammad-usman! Interesting find! Perhaps @smoran, @sholte, or @dmitchell could help with the ID. I am curious — when you say Siwaliks, are you talking about the Himalyas? (Very cool if so!)
Any thoughts, @bmacfadden or @rleder?
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Eleanor Gardner posted a new activity comment 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months agoHooray! And congratulations, @rleder! I am very happy to hear that your ideas and leadership style have been a success for the museum thus far. I really like the preview you sent – wowww!
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Eleanor Gardner posted a new activity comment 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months agoNice photo, @rleder! Seems like a happy crowd. How many employees does Naturkundemuseum Leipzig now have?
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Eleanor Gardner posted a new activity comment 6 years, 10 months ago
6 years, 10 months ago6 years, 10 months agoVery cool, thanks for sharing! In your travels around Germany, have you by any chance been to Leipzig? One of the FOSSIL Project’s former postdocs, @rleder, is now the director of Naturkundemuseum Leipzig. You should connect with him! 🙂
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic brachiopods on limestone rock from ordovician in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 11 months ago
6 years, 11 months ago6 years, 11 months ago@pdon-pinkham, @egardner, @rnarducci, @rleder Noooo, do not use acid of any kind! The matrix and the fossils are are the same – calcium carbonate – so any removal of matrix will also dissolve the fossil surfaces. Typically with Brachs that are bonded into limestone matrix, the weakest plane between them is actually within the brach shell so me…[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic brachiopods on limestone rock from ordovician in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 11 months ago
6 years, 11 months ago6 years, 11 months agoHi, @pdon-pinkham – Let’s get @rnarducci and @rleder to weigh in on this question. Do either of you have recommendations for prepping these fossils in limestone matrix? What concentration of acetic acid would you suggest?
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Lisa Lundgren replied to the topic Upcoming Meetings in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 6 years, 12 months ago
6 years, 12 months ago6 years, 12 months agoThis isn’t an upcoming meeting, per se, as the conference is happening right now, but for those who are interested in science education research, NARST (National Association of Research in Science Teaching) is happening right now–it happens at the end of April annually. I’m posting a link to the conference presentation I just gave on behalf of…[Read more]
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Nathan Newell replied to the topic Any ideas as to what this is? in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 12 months ago
6 years, 12 months ago6 years, 12 months ago@rleder I hadn’t thought of that, but maybe so! Thanks for the reply!
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Jeanette Pirlo started the topic Favorite Memories of Last Year's PaleoBlitz in the forum PaleoBlitz Forum 7 years ago
7 years ago7 years agoAs we reflect on last year’s PaleoBlitz, what was your favorite memory? @vperez@rleder@egardner@llundgren@smoran@gail-fazzina@cathy-young@joyce-drakeford@william-znidarsic@joy-rushing@david-hanes@julie-niederkorn@scoller@jon-cartier@michael-reagin@mary-harbison@rlangford@paul-fazzina
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Eleanor Gardner posted a new activity comment 7 years ago
7 years ago7 years agoAwesome, @cathy-young! I’m so glad to hear that the PaleoBlitz was useful to you. (Did you see this, @vperez and @rleder?) Cathy, be sure to check out Ronny’s digitization video tutorial (under the Resources->Videos & Tutorials tab); it could help you take the best photos of your specimens.
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Eleanor Gardner posted an update 7 years, 1 month ago
7 years, 1 month ago7 years, 1 month agoA month ago, Dr. Shuhai Xiao of Virginia Tech gave an interesting talk at the Florida Museum of Natural History. If you’d like to view his presentation, you may watch it here: http://www.myfossil.org/video-tutorials/#shuhai
FYI- @vperez@rleder@smoran@sholte@llundgren @jeanette-pirlo@djehret@alexander-hastings
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic Microscope for fossils in the forum Digitizing, Photographing, and Curating Fossils 7 years, 1 month ago
7 years, 1 month ago7 years, 1 month ago@rleder Hi Ronny! It’s good to hear from you again.
The Museum work is progressing. Still another year or so to go. They only have the Children’s Museum and the Special Exhibits areas open. Everything else, including the outside, is being “fixed.”
Do you remember that file transfer thing we used to get my videos to you? For the life of me…[Read more]
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Hunter Thurmond started the topic Microscope for fossils in the forum Digitizing, Photographing, and Curating Fossils 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months agohttp://www.amscope.com/3-5x-90x-zoom-trinocular-stereo-microscope-with-table-pillar-stand.html?gclid=CIDZrMr4g9ICFZxMDQodh3YH7A
What do you all think about this microscope with camera attatchment for photographing fossils?
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Hunter Thurmond replied to the topic Curation of Personal Collections in the forum Digitizing, Photographing, and Curating Fossils 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months ago@jkallmeyer, @rleder, @bheimbrock, @lcone, @george-powell, @lmccall, @cferrara, @walter-stein
Could some of you share your criteria for what you keep and what you discard; and how you discard of it?
After my first fossil trip I ended up with many fragments, half of me wants to keep them all and say each one is special because its 300 million…[Read more]
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Tooth Deformities/Pathologies in the forum The Megalodon Forum 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months ago@lcone@cferrara@mellwood@bkent@teddy-badaut@jnance@jeanette-pirlo@rleder@djehret
I would love to see any deformed/pathologic Megalodon teeth you’ve found and hear your thoughts on what might have caused them!
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic Mold, Cast and Steinkern in the forum What Is It? 7 years, 3 months ago
7 years, 3 months ago7 years, 3 months ago@rleder, @bdattilo, @bmacfadden, @crobins, @rebecca-freeman, @dave-carlson
I stick by my previously submitted quote from Grabau. Your clam on the right in your image is an internal mold, i.e., it was made from the original shell by an infilling of mud. This is a steinkern. If you coated it with a silicone compound you will have a cast of the…[Read more]
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Victor Perez replied to the topic need help identify in the forum What Is It? 7 years, 3 months ago
7 years, 3 months ago7 years, 3 months agoHi Amina @amina-gojak, I agree with Ronny (@rleder), these appear to carbonate rocks/minerals. We saw some similar structures in Panama. Here is a picture of a limestone ‘tube’ from Lago Alajuela that is similar to the first image in your second set of photos. As Ronny explained, the carbonate dissolves and re-precipitates in ways that give the…[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic FOSSIL Project/Dry Dredgers Mini-Conference, June 3-6, 2016 in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 7 years, 4 months ago
7 years, 4 months ago7 years, 4 months ago@jkallmeyer recently informed me of the sad news that myFOSSIL member @robert-marsh passed away on November 30, 2016. Bob participated in the Cincinnati Mini Conference this past June and his love for fossil collecting was highly evident. Due to health complications, he was unable to clamber over the rocks at our various field trip stops, but Bo…[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic Permian "fish" mystery fossil in the forum What Is It? 7 years, 4 months ago
7 years, 4 months ago7 years, 4 months ago@adam-armstrong – Ronny (@rleder) has just moved to Germany to start his new job as the director of a natural history museum, so it may be a while before he can respond.
Perhaps @vperez can take a crack in the meantime?
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