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Illusory erect spines(?) on a Kimmswick receptaculitid
pefty posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
UPDATE: These seem to just be weirdly incomplete cross-sections through ordinary cylindrical meroms. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This weekend in the Kimmswick Limestone in eastern Missouri (Pike County) I saw plenty of receptaculitid algae, mostly of genus Fisherites. But one cross-section has a feature I've never seen before: a fringe of what look like erect spines on the external surface. Can someone point me to a reference for understanding this feature functionally and/or taxonomically? I've looked in the usual places but I d -
This is a pretty great discovery! Quote from news article: "Scientists have found in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found: tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor 1bn years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/24/tiny-chinese-seaweed-is-oldest-green-plant-fossil-ever-found Abstract from Nature: "Chlorophytes (representing a clade within the Viridiplantae and a sister group of the Streptophyta) probably dominated
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Hi everyone,I am in the process of cleaning some plates I collected recently and a couple is layered with this green covering. I removed quite a lot with alcohol and toothbrush. Does anyone have any better way to get it of. I wondered abit bleach but worried it might damage the fossils. Is this green covering harmful.
