MarcoSr Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 As a quick update, I recently received an e-mail from Dr. Mayr which stated " ...... this is just to let you know that I finished my current project and will now start working on the bones you sent (earlier than I initially thought). I think that I will be able to produce a manuscript within the next weeks and will let you know once this has made progress ......" This is great news for me. I'll post any interesting updates from Dr. Mayr that I receive. Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) Edited April 20, 2016 by ynot Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 (edited) Perhaps you should try G.Mayr,at the Senckenberg Institute edit:do I feel stupid ,or what? serves me right for not reading everything that's been posted before Edited April 21, 2016 by doushantuo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted April 21, 2016 Author Share Posted April 21, 2016 Perhaps you should try G.Mayr,at the Senckenberg Institute edit:do I feel stupid ,or what? serves me right for not reading everything that's been posted before There are 3 pages of posts, so a lot to read. Dr. Mayr is a very good suggestion especially for Eocene bird bones. Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted May 4, 2016 Author Share Posted May 4, 2016 Below is an e-mail update from Dr. Mayr: ".... the study of your bones proceeds very well and altogether I could distinguish 13 species, at least one of which is based on diagnostic material and can be named as a new species. .... I am currently preparing a manuscript for publication ...." Marco Sr. 1 "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Outstanding! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Fantastic, Marco Sr.!! How very exciting and rewarding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Well done, Marco Sr. !!! Congratulations. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Way cool Marco!! Tony Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Very very cool, congratulations. Looks like it paid off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted May 5, 2016 Author Share Posted May 5, 2016 Outstanding! Fantastic, Marco Sr.!! How very exciting and rewarding. Well done, Marco Sr. !!! Congratulations. Regards, Way cool Marco!! Tony Very very cool, congratulations. Looks like it paid off. Thank you. I'm really looking forward to the paper and the description of the new species. Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnuser Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 WOW! Those would be fun to find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 A paper by Dr. Gerald Mayr was just published on-line October 14, 2016 describing these bird bones. I am very happy to finally have these bird bones described. The paper is exactly three years to the day from the date of this post. The abstract is below: New avian remains from the early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation in Virginia (USA) are described. The material stems from the Fisher/Sullivan site and consists of isolated bones. These belong to at least 13 species, most of which have not yet been reported from the Nanjemoy Formation. The fossil material includes the oldest unambiguous record of a charadriiform bird and a new species of protostrigid owl, which represents the smallest known owl species. Other specimens are tentatively assigned to the Procellariiformes, the suliform Fregatidae, the gruiform Messelornithidae, and the apodiform Eocypselidae. A complete and well-preserved tarsometatarsus of the psittacopasserine Halcyornithidae provides new data on the osteology of these enigmatic birds, and a distal tibiotarsus is tentatively assigned to the Trogoniformes. The identification of a number of fossils is uncertain, with the bones showing similarities to Threskiornithidae and extinct taxa from the early Eocene of Europe (Microena, Morsoravis). All bird fossils from the Nanjemoy Formation are three-dimensionally preserved and, therefore, allow a detailed assessment of osteological features, which complements studies of compression fossils from lagerstätten-type fossil sites. A link to the paper is provided below. Note the paper is not a free download unless you have an institutional subscription and costs USD $39.95. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-016-0330-8 I am especially happy that there was a new owl species, the smallest known owl species, among the specimens. Pictures of a number of the specimens in this post are in the paper. Unfortunately a picture of the owl specimen is not in this post. I found that specimen after this post by finally finishing searching matrix that I had collected years earlier. Marco Sr. 3 "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 This is great news. Congrats, marco. Mayr reported these things incredibly quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 I'm really happy for you, Marco. Congratulations and kudos! The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Marco, this is fantastic! Congratulations! @Auspexwould enjoy this. "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Congratulations Marco and wow it was a very quick process. It's nice to see your hard work pay off and something to be proud of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 7 hours ago, jpc said: This is great news. Congrats, marco. Mayr reported these things incredibly quickly. Jean-Pierre I was surprised how quickly Dr. Mayr wrote this paper also. To me, the paper is very well written. Probably why Dr. Mayr is considered the foremost expert in Eocene bird bones. Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 5 hours ago, JohnJ said: I'm really happy for you, Marco. Congratulations and kudos! John Thank you. It is often difficult to find a researcher who is interested in specific specimens even if they are very rare. I was really lucky that Dr. Mayr was interested in my bird bone specimens. Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 3 hours ago, PFOOLEY said: Marco, this is fantastic! Congratulations! @Auspexwould enjoy this. Mike Thank you. It feels really good to advance science, even if only a little bit. Described specimens to me are so much more valuable than ones sitting in my collection or in a drawer in a museum basement. Marco Sr. 1 "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 36 minutes ago, Troodon said: Congratulations Marco and wow it was a very quick process. It's nice to see your hard work pay off and something to be proud of. Thank you. The one nice thing about the very small fossils, which I spend so much time collecting, is that there are a lot of new and interesting very small species to be found. Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavialboy Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 congrats and I agree that its nice to see your hard work pay off. hopefully you will find plenty more rare fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted October 18, 2016 Author Share Posted October 18, 2016 4 hours ago, sorzano95 said: congrats and I agree that its nice to see your hard work pay off. hopefully you will find plenty more rare fossils. Branden Thank you. I actually have a good number of rare fossils already, especially shark and ray specimens. The problem is finding a good researcher who is interested enough in your specimens to be willing to study and describe them. Researchers all have their niche interests. Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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