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Post by reighan on Mar 3, 2011 18:03:55 GMT -5
Thanks, Tim & Pete. :-)
Reighan
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Mar 3, 2011 21:07:00 GMT -5
You are welcome Reighan! Why not post some of your fossil Reighan... don't be shy... Peter
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Post by reighan on Mar 4, 2011 3:56:39 GMT -5
Yes, I'm shy. But I've been inactive for quite a while. Even my beginner-level skills are rusty, so I'm reading and trying to get up to speed. I guess you've seen the many photos of things from my local beach under Introductions? Most of what I find is Carboniferous, so it's good to see that being discussed here.
Reighan
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Mar 4, 2011 6:05:29 GMT -5
Hi Reighan: Thanks for pointing out the location of your previous posts... there is lots! I will go have a look. Participation is what makes a forum. Don't worry about skill levels.... I am only a beginner also... been posting on the internet for about 1 yr 3 months... never had any formal training in palaeo studies... all self taught... I am having fun with this hobby ... been collecting for 7 yrs off and on and began serious collecting about a yr ago. I find that forums are a great place to learn stuff and share interesting finds to people of similar mind set. Remember just to have fun on this forum... since I rejoined this forum the member count was 48 now 70 in a short span of time that count is increasing day by day.... I am pleased to support this forum as we as so fortunate to have world class fossil hunters Lucy and Joe on this forum... this calibre / expertise is unmatched when compared to other forums.
Peter
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Post by reighan on Mar 4, 2011 10:27:08 GMT -5
Peter, I wish I were half the beginner you are. :-) It's only thanks to Joe & Lucy that I began to make any sense of my finds. I got interested because of what I was finding on the beach but it's all erratics (except maybe a type of ironstone oncolite, that I'm guessing is local). Because most books assume a time and place focus, I was pretty lost. Especially since no one seemed to care much about Carboniferous marine invertebrates. Then there were things like the bit of flint echinoid.... :-) The UKGE? forum was pretty good, but Joe went one-to-one with me and it made all the difference.
Reighan
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Mar 5, 2011 18:29:45 GMT -5
Hi Reighan: Thanks for the compliments. I a glad you are also learning lots about fossils. I just have fun with this fossil collecting hobby... the forums are great way to learn lots and increase the enjoyment of the hobby....and the Admins are some of the best in there respective fields.... Peter
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Post by Joe Botting on Mar 5, 2011 23:33:20 GMT -5
You're both being far too complimentary about us, you know... ever heard the old definition of a specialist? Someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know absolutely everything about nothing! OK, so we know the Builth Inlier pretty well, but the rest is actually quite superficial, and most of the members here know a lot more than us about their own area of interest. Even you, Reighan - the erratic fossils of the North Wales coast are your expertise, and it doesn't matter if you're still learning what they are and how to interpret them, you still know rather more about what there is than you give yourself credit for. Don't forget that "amateur" means someone who does things for the love of it - they're not inferior to professionals, they just do what they can on their limited resources. And of all the sciences, palaeontology is the one where the amateurs can make the biggest difference.
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Post by dinodragon on Mar 6, 2011 2:27:04 GMT -5
"Don't forget that "amateur" means someone who does things for the love of it - they're not inferior to professionals, they just do what they can on their limited resources. And of all the sciences, palaeontology is the one where the amateurs can make the biggest difference. " Amen. Nicely said. Using my own experiences as example, my discoveries of the oldest dinosaur embryo and the Ediacaran macro body fossils in central YunNan, China were totally unexpected and as good as, if not better than, any movie plot. The dinosaur site started the Chinese dinosaurology back in 1938 by CC Young. More than 120+ big dinos were excavated from this site. However, nobody in the past 70+ years paid any attention to the possibility of embryonic material. I bumped to that in 2003, but was not able to identify until early 2009. Similar story about the Ediacaran fossils. Was given to me in 2003, and confirmed as Ediacaran in early 2008.
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Mar 6, 2011 11:08:46 GMT -5
We all have fun on this forum... Thanks Joe and Lucy for donating your time to this forum... Tim that is a great story about your discoveries! Hope you get the funding to carry on. Peter
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Post by dinodragon on Mar 6, 2011 11:20:40 GMT -5
Any help from anyone will be very appreciated.
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