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looking for articles and websites on Brachiopods from Eifel (Germany)
ziggycardon posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hi everyone! Yesterday I bought a collection of fossils from a retired fossil hunter, included in the lot was a box full of devonian Brachiopods from the Eifel region (mainly Gerolstein) in Germany. I find Brachiopods very interesting and I am getting better at ID'ing them, but there are quite a few species I've never really seen before and my usual ID website of Paleontica doesn't seem to have most in their database. So I was hoping if anyone here has some handy articles, papers or websites which might help with my quest on ID'ing these critters. PS. I was also planning on posting the ones I really can't figure out, but since I am leaving for Solnhofen tomorrow I wanted to get my hands on some good sources first. Thank you in advance!- 8 replies
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Share and showcase you favorite non-fossil books & encyclopedia's
ziggycardon posted a topic in Members' News & Diversions
Hi everyone, I thought it would be fun to create a topic for us to share and showcase or favourite books and encyclopedia's. Because when I look at my fellow members here, I see a lot of very intelligent and learned people who besides Geology & Paleontology share many of the same interests as I do. Interests focussed on Science, Nature, Space, History, Art, Photography, Literature and Film. I believe many of the members here are well read and that's why I thought this might be fun idea for a topic. We already have one dedicated to our favorite books about paleontology, so let this topic be about every other book. So if you have any encyclopedia's, atlases, rare comic books, books about photography or travelling, first prints of old books, rare collectors editions or just you favorite novel or any other book that you love or are proud about let us then show them here. And perhaps tell us why you love these books so much. The paleontology book topic made me discover many cool books, so I am hoping this topic can do the same. I can't wait to see all the cool volumes to come! -
A friend recently bought a collection of trading cards from mostly the 1990's to the 2000's up to about 2010 with most of them being of the promotional type. However, one stood out as much older and he asked members of the trading card forum, Card Talk, for further information. I told him I would ask around, and knowing there are book collectors (and people with all kinds of stuff) in our midst here, I thought I would see if I could "stump the band" here as well. This is the kind of thing that might be in a Cabinet of Curiosities or stored in an album of paper ephemera. It appears to be a promotional card or bookmark for "The Story of Nations," the American edition of the series but is this something else? Would something like this have been given out at a bookstore or some event? I neglected to get the dimensions and will try to have that by sometime in the late morning but it appears to be somewhat larger than 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches or 65 x 90mm. Views of the front and back are provided. @snolly50 @ziggycardon @Bobby Rico @LabRatKing @piranha Thanks, Jess
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Hi Brachiopod enthusiasts. I am preparing a talk (volunteer) for the Maryland Natural History Society and am asking if anyone can help me to access some literature that would help. Stanley, Stephen M 1974 What Has happened to the Articulate Brachiopods Geological Society of America Annual Meetings Miami Florida, Clams and Brachiopods-Ships that Pass in the Night Gould, Stephen Paleobiology Vol 6 #4 Fall 1980 pp383-396 and Researchgate.net publication/229615227 Predatory Asteroids and the decline of the Articulate Brachiopods Donovan, Stephen K 10/2007. Just noticed what's with all these Stephens and brachiopods? Finally does any one have any info on the proportion of articulate brachiopods that used pedicles versus just laying on the bottom or using spines? Any specific help would be greatly appreciated. If anyone wants to comment or make suggestions about what to include i would welcome them. The talk is titled Brachiopods and Bivalves: Two Look-alikes with different approaches to filter feeding. It is geared for curious individuals to stimulate interest in both groups and includes fossil and modern examples. Thanks for taking a look and any comments you would like to make.
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Yesterday, I was participating in an Open House event with my local mineral club. I had a display of fossils, minerals, and American Indian artifacts from New York state, and found that the person assisting visitors at the door was sending all of the people who brought fossils in to my table. This was lots of fun, but I rapidly discovered a problem with the two fossil guide books I own: while they both have a lot of information about Lower and Middle Devonian fossils, there wasn't enough breadth on Upper Devonian for me to really give a positive ID of anything found locally! The best I could manage was to point to a Middle Devonian species and say something like "The holes in your rock look a lot like the impressions that on of these brachiopods, Pseodoatrypa devoniana, might leave, but those were earlier and didn't get that big. I don't know what your fossils are other than something similar." Can anyone recommend a good resource for Upper Devonian material? What I currently have are the two PRI publications on Devonian Fossils of New York (one by Linsley, the other by Wilson).
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I'm trying to find : A Manual of Practical Laboratory and Field Techniques in Palaeobiology By O.R. Green And the paper "The use of plastics in the "transfer method" of preparing fossils" (can't remember the author, and can't find it listed now.) Anyone have any leads? Thanks in advance!
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Article about fossil collecting in fiction. John Mullan's ten of the best: fossils Fossils turn up in all sorts of places, from 8th-century satire to modern historical fiction by John Mullan, The Guardian, March 9, 2012 http://www.guardian....e?newsfeed=true Yours, Paul H.
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