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Long ago, back in the late 1980s, I lived in British Columbia and had the opportunity to collect in the Late Cretaceous Nanaimo Group.  I realized that many of the crabs and lobsters I was collecting were undescribed, so I made an effort to collect any material I came across.  I tried to find a collaborator willing to help describe the material, but (for reasons I described elsewhere) that didn't work out, and I was encouraged to take on the writing myself.  Since I had to focus on my own research career, which actually has nothing to do with paleontology, the project languished and over time most of the taxa were described independently by others, based on specimens collected by other people.  Although I would have loved to contribute to the published record of the Nanaimo Group I became convinced that that would not happen.

 

Then, about two years ago, I was corresponding with Torrey Nyborg (a fossil decapod expert well known to some Forum members @fossisle @MB @Al Dente) and found out that he was working on some new species of the crab genus Archaeopus from Vancouver Island and California.  I sent him my material, one thing led to another, and the paper has just been published.  I am very grateful that Torrey included me as a coauthor.  I was also able to contribute the holotype of Archaeopus morenoensis (Figure 15 panel A, attached below), which is actually from California.  So thanks to Torrey I feel my long-ago efforts paid off.

 

Don

 

 

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:default_clap2:Don !

 

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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

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How wonderful! 

Congratulations, Don, it's such a nice story. :)

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:yay-smiley-1:Congratulations Don! Good Job!

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Wow, Don!  This is awesome news!  It's great to see this kind of personal find and collaboration.

 

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Congratulations, Don!  :default_clap2:  :SlapHands:

Glad to see your dreams realized! 

Well done sir - thank you for sharing this with us! 

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Congratulations, Don!

 

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Start the day with a smile and get it over with.

 

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Congrats :yay-smiley-1:

growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional.

 

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Thanks everyone!

 

I'd like to encourage anyone who thinks they have something new or significant* to reach out to the professional paleontologist community.  Sometimes it works out very nicely, as we have seen time and again here on the Fossil Forum.  

 

Don

 

* If you are new to fossil hunting, or you are not sure what you have, I'd encourage people to run it through the ID section of the Forum first.  You don't want to be pestering people with random rocks.

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Don, this is a pretty spectacular contribution...it makes me very happy to see someone who is  as passionate as you have their efforts rewarded in such a manner. Congratulations on the co-authorship!...very cool.

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How did I miss this before? Congratulations.

 

 

Mark.

 

Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them!

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That's awesome Don!

 

I too have sent some specimens from the southern part of Vancouver Island to Torrey for examination. His first impression is that at least one and maybe two may be new to science. I've shared posts including photos of the two specimens else on the forum.

 

Exciting times lay ahead.

 

P.S. I was just looking through my photos and came across some snaps that you took of our trip to Clay Creek back in 2010. How time flies!

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2010?  That long ago?  That trip is still a highlight for me.

I've still got family in Rock Creek and in Nelson so watch out, I'll probably drop in on you one of these days.

 

Don

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