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Post by Joe Botting on Mar 17, 2006 18:01:02 GMT -5
There's now a much simplified geological history of the inlier available from the introduction - suddenly realised that this was rather lacking on the site so far, so it's now been rectified!
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Post by Joe Botting on Mar 20, 2006 11:53:58 GMT -5
Drawings for the four remaining cyclopygids have been added (Microparia major, Microparia shelvensis, Microparia nigra and Sagavia cf. novakelliformis). That's all the known cyclopygids, except possibly for another Sagavia specimen that we found in the teretiusculus zone... but it's not quite complete, so we can't be certain it's a different one.
Joe
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Post by Joe Botting on Mar 24, 2006 15:28:47 GMT -5
And two new ostracodes in the list as well - Bullaeferum sp. B and Gunnaropsis? sp., both from the Builth Volcanic Group.
J
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Post by Joe Botting on Apr 7, 2006 16:51:22 GMT -5
A new page has just been added (although thanks to AOL, I can't see it yet, so I hope it's worked!) to the Research section - Community Palaeoecology. www.asoldasthehills.org/communitiesThis describes the basic details of what we've so far worked out about how different fossil assemblages are distributed in time and space, through the development of the island complex. Hopefully this will be of interest to quite a few people out there, since it invites direct comparison with findings from other areas or other times. What do you think of it all? Joe
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Post by Joe Botting on Apr 19, 2006 14:44:02 GMT -5
Five new bivalves added to the faunal list, all from very shallow-water sandstones. The grand total is now up to 333. We went to Birmingham to look through my old PhD collections for things we can use in the Radnorshire Museum displays... what fun! (It's amazing how many things I'd forgotten about...) J
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Post by Joe Botting on Apr 19, 2006 15:06:59 GMT -5
Lucy and I have just put a new section up in research: the first few range charts to accompany the faunal list. www.asoldasthehills.org/range_charts.htmlAt the moment, we've got graps (we're working on a better chart for that one, but it's usable), sponges, brachiopods and echinoderms. More will go up as we do them, but in the meantime, they make for an interesting comparison... J
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Post by Joe Botting on Jun 5, 2006 15:36:58 GMT -5
Okeydokey, we finally have a few drawings up on the site (under images/drawings, assuming the link actually works - I can't check yet!). You can go straight there by clicking on www.asoldasthehills.org/reconstructionsIt's a beginning, anyway. Once we have the templates for this sorted out properly, we can add galleries for all sorts of things. X-rays and general photos should be high on the list. Joe
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Post by Joe Botting on Jun 8, 2006 4:21:42 GMT -5
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Post by Joe Botting on Jul 9, 2006 13:48:01 GMT -5
The photos page now has two more galleries in it: X-rays and general fossil photography. There are only a few in each so far, but it should be much easier to add things now they're there, and we have no shortage! There will also be a general landscapes/pretty pictures gallery at some point. If you've got any decent images for these sections, let us know and we'll put them up. ;D
Joe
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Post by Joe Botting on Aug 22, 2006 13:59:46 GMT -5
I've started a general glossary, by popular request. It's a bit primitive, and although it's focussed on the relevant palaeontology, it does include smatterings of geology and things like that. Lists of words/terms for includsion will be appreciated! www.asoldasthehills.org/glossary
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Post by Joe Botting on Aug 27, 2006 4:32:37 GMT -5
Just done a spot of tidying of outdated text, and added a few more not-yet-drawns (2 other arthropods, one echinoderm and one problematicum). The problematicum is fascinating - it's a specimen I thought we'd lost when we moved house, but it's turned up again. Seems to be a vermiform creature, but with some sort of hooked appendage. Although it's only a partial, it's preserved in 3D inside a pyrite nodule - yet another variation on exceptional preservation in the area... Joe
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Post by Joe Botting on Aug 28, 2006 16:17:25 GMT -5
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Post by Joe Botting on Sept 6, 2006 9:48:42 GMT -5
A few more things on the faunal list: bivalves J & K Pseudodendrograptus sp. cornute sp. B and a couple of extras added to the 'to be drawn' categories: Trinucleus sp. gastropod indet. I might even have time to draw them one day. Joe
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Post by Joe Botting on Sept 8, 2006 15:41:51 GMT -5
While I'm waiting for things to draw, I've added the taxa from the Lagerstatte that we're reasonably certain of. In other words, there are now another 14 species on the various 'to be drawn' lists... and the total number of species has passed 350! J.
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Post by Joe Botting on Sept 10, 2006 11:45:16 GMT -5
Found an essay we hadn't put up... it's called 'Snakes and Ladders and cornutes' and is basically a description of how we get to the answers in the case of difficult fossils. It's quite fun, if you want a look... www.asoldasthehills.org/snakesJoe
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