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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 3, 2014 21:03:44 GMT -5
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Post by Joe Botting on Feb 5, 2014 15:06:13 GMT -5
That is one weird critter. It's really interesting seeing the range of image effects, but unfortunately there's so little to see in a Mazon fossil that it's hard to get anything useful out of it... have you picked up anything that you think gives new information? I may well have missed something...
What's your take on the beastie? Weird pteropod-like mollusc, or something else..?
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Post by ammocarbsteve on Feb 7, 2014 15:00:04 GMT -5
Peter.... I agree with Joe.... Very strange.... I know little about this creature myself....
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 10, 2014 21:32:33 GMT -5
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 11, 2014 7:32:48 GMT -5
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 11, 2014 7:35:48 GMT -5
Dr Dave Rudkin thought they were siderite precipitate. Dr Carole Burrow thought that may be gastroliths??? Not scale?
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Post by Joe Botting on Feb 13, 2014 2:42:47 GMT -5
They're too widely distributed to be gastroliths - the gut in virtually every invertebrate is relatively narrow. I reckon Dave's got this one right.... the question is whether there's any significance to the distribution of them. If there was a band of these in the same position in most specimens, then it might be related to something anatomical.
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 20, 2014 7:15:45 GMT -5
Thanks for the analysis Joe  ! |
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