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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, @tmorgan, have you heard of the RockD app? It provides you with the geological context for your fossil finds (or just for fun)! https://rockd.org/ It’s free on iOS and Android and can really improve the data for specimens!
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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, @tmorgan, do you have any other information on this specimen? Is it a mollusk?
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Jeanette Pirlo wrote a new post, Lesson Plan: Mistaken Identities: Ancient Interpretations of Fossils 6 years, 2 months ago
6 years, 2 months ago6 years, 2 months ago♦ SUMMARY: Mistaken Identities: Ancient Interpretations of Fossils – A lesson created by Tynessa Morgan (@tmorgan)
♦ AUDIENCE: 6-12, Middle School, High School, Sixth (6th) Grade, Seventh (7th) Grade, Eight […]
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Jeanette Pirlo wrote a new post, Mistaken Identities: Ancient Interpretations of Fossils 6 years, 2 months ago
6 years, 2 months ago6 years, 2 months agoMistaken Identities: ancient Interpretations of Fossils. A lesson created by @tmorgan Can be modified for other age groups. Click the link below to access the poster of the lesson. Please contact the author with […]
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Eleanor Gardner posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
6 years, 6 months ago6 years, 6 months agoHi, @erin-lindberg! How cool that you are starting a 3D printing and fossil club at your school! 🙂 I believe that @cgrant, @jeanette-pirlo, @maggie-paxson, @skillingsworth, or @tmorgan should be able to give you some pointers!
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This is great to hear @erin-lindberg! We could start a group for youth clubs, a place where all participants can meet and talk. They can use the forums for identification and ask more specific questions. I’m excited to hear your plans! Will they be scanning and uploading their finds to the 3D gallery? Let me know if I can help. Hey @maggie-paxso…[Read more]
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Jeanette Pirlo replied to the topic Geologic Time Scale Activities: Which works best? in the forum K-12 Fossils and Lessons Forum 6 years, 6 months ago
6 years, 6 months ago6 years, 6 months agoHey @alicia-foy@gail-alaimo@nina-corley@denise-porcello@scott-flamand@ginny-switt@gretchen-miller@tricialynn-glotfelty@mhendrickson@skillingsworth@maggie-paxson@tmorgan@vperez@rebecca-mussetter@tredina-sheppard
have you taught the geologic time scale? And if so, what type of activity did you use? Did you find it effective? …[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic FOSSIL Webinar Series in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 6 years, 7 months ago
6 years, 7 months ago6 years, 7 months agoI’m looking forward to the start of the Fall 2017 webinar series, “FOSSIL Roadshow,” scheduled for this Wednesday (Sept 20) at 7pm Eastern! This time I get to participate in the series as a general attendee, instead of working behind-the-scenes. 😉 I believe the first episode will feature Dry Dredgers such as @jkallmeyer, trilobite expert Dr. B…[Read more]
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Jeanette Pirlo replied to the topic We Got Your Back in the forum K-12 Fossils and Lessons Forum 6 years, 8 months ago
6 years, 8 months ago6 years, 8 months ago@tmorgan this is a great idea to explore this week! Please bring it up!
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Jeanette Pirlo posted an update in the group 2017 FOSSILs for Teachers Professional Development 6 years, 8 months ago
6 years, 8 months ago6 years, 8 months ago@jbauer@rob-birchfield@rachel-aguilar@cindy-birkner@danielle-brennan@scoller@nina-corley@tmorgan@alicia-foy@pat-sullivan-gronert@tricialynn-glotfelty@paul-kester@skillingsworth@dkrisher@david-lindberg@jennifer-manner@monika-mishra@pam-plummer@denise-porcello@george-powell@glenn-greene@ginny-switt@john-westgaard@aaron-woodruff…[Read more]
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Jeanette Pirlo replied to the topic "Gar"ding Yourself with Scales in the forum K-12 Fossils and Lessons Forum 6 years, 12 months ago
6 years, 12 months ago6 years, 12 months ago@tmorgan most of the specimens have not yet been uploaded to the online collections’ website. We collect so much each week that it’s difficult to keep up! I’ve included the link to the FLMNH Vert Paleo online collections database. You can look up any of our specimens there, if they have been uploaded. Let me know if I can help you with it…[Read more]
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Jeanette Pirlo replied to the topic We Got Your Back in the forum K-12 Fossils and Lessons Forum 6 years, 12 months ago
6 years, 12 months ago6 years, 12 months ago@tmorgan I think that’s a great idea! Are your students old enough to read “Your Inner Fish”?
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Jennifer Bauer replied to the topic in the forum Tynessa Morgan 7 years ago
7 years ago7 years agoI agree with @tmorgan – That was one of the points of making the Ordovician Atlas app – to have a quick pocket guidebook to the Cincinnati region fossil. Further than that, an app could be useful if it incorporated MacroStrat and the PBDB as references to where you are and what else you could potentially find there. The Mancos app does this – if…[Read more]
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Lisa Lundgren replied to the topic Montbrook Fossil Dig in the forum Pictures In The Field 7 years ago
7 years ago7 years agoWho was on the Montbrook fossil dig this weekend? I saw @michelle-barboza‘s live tweets featuring some folks, like @rebecca-mussetter, @dellingson, and @tmorgan but I don’t know if I missed seeing some people.
Did you take photos while you were in the field? Share your favorite!
@jeanette-pirlo @vperez@bmacfadden can you tag people if you kn…[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner posted an update 7 years, 1 month ago
7 years, 1 month ago7 years, 1 month agoHi, everyone! Don’t forget to join us for the second installment of the Women in Paleontology webinar series tonight at 7pm Eastern. Dr. Brenda Hunda from the Cincinnati Museum Center is our featured speaker. Her talks promises to be great! 🙂
Dry Dredgers and friends, show your support! @jkallmeyer, @kyle-hartshorn, @bheimbrock, @david-meyer, [Read more]
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Lisa Lundgren replied to the topic Brach on coral? in the forum What Is It? 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months ago@hunter-thurmond if you’re looking for an inexpensive option to take close up shots of fossils with your iPhone, I can’t recommend the mPow lens kits enough. They are very affordable, and clip onto your phone camera lens. I know that some folks take issue with the fact that it can “bend” the image, but it does a pretty job good for the price…[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner posted an update in the group K12 Teachers 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months ago@rebecca-mussetter, @laura-amatulli, @larnow, @gsantos, @jack-miller, @acurrier, @dellingson, @tmorgan, @sgalligher, @suzanne-barnard, @cgrant, @michelle-barboza, @vperez, @catherine-mueller, @denise-porcello, @matthew-croxton, @llundgren, @lisa-hosokawa, @bmacfadden, @kcrippen
Please see the image I posted below — tomorrow, Feb 9, there will be…[Read more]
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Jeanette Pirlo started the topic "Gar"ding Yourself with Scales in the forum K-12 Fossils and Lessons Forum 7 years, 4 months ago
7 years, 4 months ago7 years, 4 months agoThrough time, fishes have evolved various adaptations that have helped them survive. Thanks to the fossil record, we have been able to keep track of some of these adaptations and track how much a species has changed.
An adaptation that persists through the fossil record is that of gar scales. These durable ganoid scales protect the body of t…[Read more]
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Jeanette Pirlo started the topic Taking A Stab At Spines in the forum K-12 Fossils and Lessons Forum 7 years, 4 months ago
7 years, 4 months ago7 years, 4 months agoOsteichthyes literally translates into “bony fishes” and nothing feels bonier than a fish spine! These tough elements can be found on the anterior portion of the fins and are usually unsegmented. Spines have been used for various reasons, but mainly for protection against predators. In catfish especially, the pectoral spines can be serrated! <…[Read more]
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Lisa Lundgren replied to the topic We Got Your Back in the forum K-12 Fossils and Lessons Forum 7 years, 5 months ago
7 years, 5 months ago7 years, 5 months agoHuh. Is there any way to tell the species of fish by the size of vertebrae? Isn’t that one of the ways they do it with mammals? I know that the best way to ID mammals is with teeth, but I thought vertebrae shape was also a helpful diagnostic. Not so much with fishes?
@tmorgan were you able to bring this information about fish verts back to your…[Read more]
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Jeanette Pirlo started the topic We Got Your Back in the forum K-12 Fossils and Lessons Forum 7 years, 5 months ago
7 years, 5 months ago7 years, 5 months agoSome of the most commonly found preserved specimens in the fossil record are of fish vertebrae. These elements range greatly in shape, style and detail in order to provide the correct support for different fish species. In some situations, the spines are preserved in their correct location on the vertebra (see picture below of A. Currier’s ve…[Read more]
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