ryanc
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Post by ryanc on Sept 15, 2014 13:46:45 GMT -5
Searching is hampered by the lack of pictures from existing collections online <cough> NHM <cough> - do you know which institutions hold decent collections of Ordovician specimens?
Regards,
Ryan
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Post by Joe Botting on Sept 16, 2014 2:24:25 GMT -5
Well, the NHM and NMW certainly have good ones, mainly because of Paul Taylor and Caroline Butter respectively. The university and regional museums have more random assortments, which can include interesting things but are nowhere near comprehensive; the Lapworth, for example, has a fantastic Wenlock Limestone collection, and Ludlow must have some good ones as well; Leeds has some nice Carboniferous ones... and so on. I tend to aim at the journals when looking, most of the time - google scholar searches for Ordovician bryozoans turn up quite a bit, especially of the American limestone faunas. The problem here, of course, is that limestones are ecologically distinct from siltstones - so the chances are that nothing quite like this one has been described.
If you do looking in museum collections for bryozoans, it's worth looking in the sponge and problematica drawers as well - anything non-standard like bryozoans tends to end up getting misidentified! ;-)
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tqb
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Post by tqb on Sept 18, 2014 5:51:12 GMT -5
Gorgeous bryozoan, Joe. Adrian Bancroft helped me with some Carboniferous ones but he seems to have dropped out of sight at the moment - and I've got one or two oddities I'd like to run past someone. Would you consider a bryozoan thread?  |
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Post by Joe Botting on Sept 18, 2014 14:08:25 GMT -5
Be my guest, Tarquin - I'm more than happy to see some bryozoans on here, although I should add that I know little enough about them and don't have many references... but if nothing else, it puts them all in one place for people to look at. :-)
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