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Post by ordovicianodyssey on Feb 2, 2014 9:21:30 GMT -5
Hello everyone! I'm some sort of odd mix, however for the time being I'm most part an amateur at Paleontology, looking for a future in it, as university will soon fall upon me. I do enjoy conducting my own research regarding the Late-Ordovician extinction event. I have enjoyed focusing my studies around the Gull River formation, however also pick around Bobcaygeon Verulam and Lindsay, sometimes Billings (If anyone is from around Ontario).  Cheers! Shamus
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Post by Joe Botting on Feb 2, 2014 11:33:00 GMT -5
Hi Shamus, and welcome indeed - we seem to be getting quite a Canadian contingent on here now! Pleecan's your man for discussing the local geology (you'll probably know him already) but I'm looking forward to seeing what you've been finding, and will help out with whatever I can.
Cheers indeed!
Joe
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 2, 2014 11:43:32 GMT -5
Welcome Shamus!
PL
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Post by Joe Botting on Feb 6, 2014 8:22:52 GMT -5
Have you got any particular groups you're interested in, Shamus, or do you look at everything that turns up? Sponges are my main thing - in fact, I'm just heading off to Sweden for a week to work on the Sirius Passet ones. Should be good fun...  |
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Post by ammocarbsteve on Feb 7, 2014 15:02:28 GMT -5
Welcome Shamus.... Be good to see some of your fossil finds and acquisitions....
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Post by reighan on Feb 9, 2014 6:50:33 GMT -5
Hi, Shamus. Welcome to the group. :-)
Reighan
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 11, 2014 7:38:22 GMT -5
Have you got any particular groups you're interested in, Shamus, or do you look at everything that turns up? Sponges are my main thing - in fact, I'm just heading off to Sweden for a week to work on the Sirius Passet ones. Should be good fun... Have fun Joe. Shamus hunts in Ordovician of Ontario. |
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Post by Joe Botting on Feb 12, 2014 14:12:52 GMT -5
Have fun Joe. Shamus hunts in Ordovician of Ontario. Blimey, that was an intensive week. Fourteen species described, six of them new, and I'm absolutely zonked. Getting back to the UK tomorrow should be interesting as well... actually, that part's not so bad, as the airport is still above water, but getting from there to Llandrindod is another matter entirely. Reighan, are you ok up there? The wind's been vicious by you, according to the news... Aye, Shamus said he hunted in various Canadian deposits, but I was asking whether he had a preference for a particular group - trilobite, brachies, etc... |
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 20, 2014 7:20:28 GMT -5
Wow Congratulations Joe!!!! 6 new species Jackpot!  That is wonderful news! Please keep us posted Joe! |
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Post by Joe Botting on Feb 20, 2014 9:32:50 GMT -5
Well, it's pretty normal for a sponge fauna, to be honest... Definitely good to get so many new ones, though, and this was from a relatively small collection that was focusing on other things. The most interesting find was one that I can't name, actually - disarticulated remains of a crown-group demosponge, probably a haplosclerid. We'll be writing that one up separately, I think. The rest are all fairly mundane additions to Cambrian diversity, but still good to have. |
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 20, 2014 12:54:28 GMT -5
Wonderful Joe! |
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Post by ammocarbsteve on Feb 20, 2014 15:58:18 GMT -5
Welcome back Joe.... it sounds a very interesting trip... You should share some photos of any fieldwork or stuff you get upto it would be good to see....
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Post by Joe Botting on Feb 20, 2014 16:30:38 GMT -5
Welcome back Joe.... it sounds a very interesting trip... You should share some photos of any fieldwork or stuff you get upto it would be good to see.... Alas, I didn't get out into the field... I'd love to, though. Sirius Passet is in remote northern Greenland, and by all accounts is an amazing place. I was just working on the collections made a couple of decades back, by John Peel, Simon Conway Morris, Paul Smith and others. I'll certainly share some pictures once it's published, but that might be a while, I'm afraid...  |
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That is wonderful news! Please keep us posted Joe!