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Post by scyphocrinites on Mar 9, 2011 20:27:26 GMT -5
Hi All
I am new to this Forum , i joined after a friend of mine recommended it , i m trying to send pictures of fossils found in the Fezouata formation , most fossils are unidentified and would like help for that.
Thank you
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Post by Joe Botting on Mar 9, 2011 23:43:02 GMT -5
Welcome, Scypho! I'm looking forward to seeing them - although many Fezouata taxa are undescribed, we should be able to help with some of them...
Did you collect them yourself?
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Mar 10, 2011 6:16:56 GMT -5
Welcome Malek to the forum! Joe just to let you know that all my Morocco material comes from Scyphocrinites.
Peter
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Post by scyphocrinites on Mar 10, 2011 7:16:48 GMT -5
Thanks Joe and Peter , i dont collect them myself , i get them from diggers , one question , how could post photos in here? thanks
Malek
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Mar 10, 2011 7:50:39 GMT -5
Hi Malek: What I do is the I opened a free account with photobucket.com and then up load my pictures into photobucket ... then copy the link of that picture and paste it into the message that is being posted.
This is one method I am currently using.
Peter
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Post by scyphocrinites on Mar 10, 2011 11:17:55 GMT -5
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Mar 11, 2011 15:19:05 GMT -5
You are welcome Malek! Nice specimens as always.
Peter
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Post by hallucygenia on Mar 11, 2011 23:00:49 GMT -5
Hi Malek, and welcome to the forum.
I've looked at your graptolite pictures: the third specimen is certainly graptolite, but I would need a closer picture to attempt an identification. The 7th specimen is fragments of either Clonograptus or Adelograptus - I have similar material, but have not yet got anything preserved such that I can see the features needed to tell the difference.
Lucy
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Post by hallucygenia on Mar 11, 2011 23:08:47 GMT -5
Picture d - probably a worm burrow
picture e - probably brachiopod
picture n - probably another brachiopod
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Post by Joe Botting on Mar 11, 2011 23:25:16 GMT -5
Just to add, the first two are indeed both trilobites, but they've not really been studied from the Fezouata yet and so it's hard to get much further. The undescribed trilobite fauna is thought to run into dozens of species... I think the same goes for the brachiopods and molluscs, although these may well be described from elsewhere - it needs a specialist to work on them. Fezouata is a bit odd in that the exceptionally preserved elements are better known than the shelly things!
As Lucy says, d is probably a pyritised burrow, which is common. However, there are also a fair number of definite worm body fossils, and poorly preserved ones do indeed look like burrows. In cases like this, it's impossible to say for sure - you need clearly preserved features like chetae or segment boundaries.
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Mar 12, 2011 10:14:01 GMT -5
Hi Malek: If you want to display the pictures rather than a link then choose "Img code" and copy and past into the body of message.
PL
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