The ECPHORA The Newsletter of the Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club Volume 35 Number 2 June 2020
Jeri Cuffley Sculpts Meg Model for CMM… Features Names it Matilda Jeri Cuffley Meg Model Homage to Bob Platt Ambidextrous Scallops
Inside President’s Column New crab: Cancer nancei Norm Riker Fossil Rake Two New Shark Species Australian Superlatives Club Events Paleontology in the NPS Publishing Woes Phenome 10k Ocean Sunfish Beak Rare Echinoid Found
An early view of the mouth. The meg teeth were sculpted separately in the form of a denture and inserted into the toothless jaw.
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Disaster in the oven. Jeri used polymer clay to Cuffley Meg-Model Continued… construct the model. To cure fully, this kind of clay must be baked in the oven…sometimes the clay “explodes”. The mark of a true expert, Jeri was undaunted by this minor setback.
Jeri Cuffley, attired as a sign of the times, holds Matilda. The name “Matilda” is of German origin meaning "battle-mighty", suitable as the name of a female megalodon! The sign in the background reads, “Swim at your own Risk.” It is actually there for another one of Jeri’s works of art.
I look forward to placing this model on display at the Museum. Photos submitted by Jeri Cuffley. ☼
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The Passing of our Good Friend Editor’s Note: in the following publication, CMM Paleo Collections Manager, John Nance was honored Bob Platt by having a new species of crab named after him. Way to go John!
Systematics and Paleoecology of Miocene Brachyuran Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Cancroidea, Portunidae) from the St. Marys Formation, Maryland, USA
By Heedar Bahman, Rodney M. Feldmann, and Carrie E. Schweitzer. Journal of Crustacean Biology (2020) 1–13. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruaa014.
This edited and decorated photo of Bob hangs just outside our fossil collections room at the Calvert Marine Museum. He was such a valuable asset to our Department. Bob Platt joined the fossil club back in the 1980’s. Bob had represented the club at both A dorsal and ventral view of CMM-I-4783, a new SharkFest and PRAD (Patuxent River Appreciation species of crab, “Cancer nancei”, named after CMM Days) for at least 20 years! Bob had volunteered for Paleo Collections Manager, John Nance. Photos the Department of Paleontology for an amazing 6,139 taken and submitted by John Nance. ☼ hours; many of those hours were spent helping to catalogue our various collections. Pam said it was an eighteen-month fight that he waged. Now he is free to run and fly. ☼
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Greetings Club Members! is going to be different with so many of the old timers no longer with us.
I hope when we next are able to meet as a club I am sure that we are all anxiously awaiting for that we can make it a little more special somehow. the Covid-19 social restrictions to be over. It has Until then, be safe take care of yourselves and I wish certainly put a crimp on any of my fossil activities. I everyone health, wealth, and happiness. am leaning towards the side of caution and taking all measures I can to stay healthy and safe. I hope that Submitted by Paul Murdoch. ☼ you all are doing the same. While in this lockdown, I hope you've all taking advantage of the situation to do something to Riker-Rake better yourself or your home. I have completed a lot of small projects around the house but still haven't learned a second language. I just can't seem to find the time and energy for that but I'm burning through a lot of good series on Netflix!!! My main focus this year has been adding native plants that would be a benefit to migrating butterflies this Fall. At this time, I still have our unofficial Club trip on June 7th to Stratford Hall as a "go" but that may change. If it does, please looked to your email for updates. I hope that we will get some trip scheduled for the Fall as well. I do have some sad news to pass on. Two icons of fossil collecting passed away recently:
1) CMMFC lifetime member "Bob" Austin Platt, husband of Pam Platt, died recently after fighting a lengthy illness. Bob was a college professor and an expert on butterflies. For the last several years before getting sick Bob volunteered several times a week, helping to catalog specimens in the Paleo collection while Pam was preparing Field jackets and volunteering in the prep lab. They donated the majority of their fossil collection to the museum within the past year (see recent article in The Ecphora) and have been staying out west with their family and enjoying time with their newest grandchild.
2) For those club members who remember collecting at Aurora, NC in the 1990s, Candace Holiday, who was a Director of the Aurora fossil Museum, passed away in her sleep on May 4 at her home. Candice exuded the tough love approach of a grizzly bear mother but would do anything for you if you worked your way into her good graces. She was CMMFC life-member Norm Riker made this custom a straight shooter and I certainly appreciated that. If shark-tooth rake/screen and used it very successfully we ever do get to collect and that place, again it sure for many years. Photos by S. Godfrey. ☼ Newsletter website: http://calvertmarinemuseum.com/204/The-Ecphora-Newsletter 5 The Ecphora June 2020
Ambidextrous Scallops: coccymelus. We report that now the maximum known length of C. coccymelus is increased to 154.0 mm. Chesapecten nefrens Ward and Blackwelder (1975) stated that (Mollusca: Pectinidae) scallops in the genus Chesapecten “…lived with the flatter right valve resting on the sediment...” Since From Scientists’ Cliffs, Maryland, that time this assertion has been repeated (e.g., Rest on Either Valve Anonymous, 2003). This is the opposite inflation of most modern scallop valves. They also rest on their
right valve (or lower valve), but it is more inflated, Ernest H. Williams, Jr.1,2, and than the left valve. This gives the animal a lower Lucy Bunkley-Williams1,3 profile above the sediment.
Abstract - Chesapecten spp. rested on their right, flatter valve. Our examinations demonstrate one Miocene species of these scallops, C. nefrens, rested on either valve. The barnacles, Balanus concavus chesapeakensis, were epibionts on the top valve of many, living C. nefrens. This barnacle only attached to live C. nefrens scallops. These fossil barnacles are approximately as abundant on the right valve as on the left (more convex) valve; therefore, C. nefrens individuals rested on either valve. No species of ancient or modern scallop is known to rest almost equally on either valve. The Barnacle Orientation Indication is a new paleontology, taphonomy, and biology tool. Some (2.7%) C. nefrens survived compression fractures probably from rays and 3.2% Figure 1. Large Balanus concavus chesapeakensis, on perished from borehole predators. Two boreholes right valve of Chesapecten nefrens (Anonymous, were caused by either Euspira heros, or Neverita 2015). duplicatus.
One scallop in this genus was first described, Introduction figured, but not named, by Martin Lister (1687) from The Chesapeake toothless-comb scallop, the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. It was the first Chesapecten nefrens Ward and Blackwelder, 1975 fossil described from the New World. Say (1824) (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pterioida: Pectinidae) is the most realized the species was from Virginia, not the Virgin abundant Miocene fossil scallop at Scientists’ Cliffs, Islands, and named it Pecten jeffersonius. [Now Maryland. It occurs in the Calvert Formation zone 14 Chesapecten jeffersonius (Say, 1824) Ward and and Choptank Formation Shattuck zones 16-20. It was Blackwelder, 1975]. formally confused with what is now Chesapecten The Chesapeake giant-acorn barnacle, madisonius (Say, 1824) (Anonymous, 2003; Ward Balanus concavus chesapeakensis Pilsbry, 1916 and Blackwelder, 1975). (Arthropoda: Cirripedia: Thoracica: Balanidae) The Chesapeake barbed-comb scallop, attached as epibionts on mollusk shells and sand Chesapecten coccymelus (Dall, 1898) Ward and dollars, and on other hard substrata in the middle Blackwelder, 1975, is a smaller scallop, which Miocene of Maryland. preceded C. nefrens. It occurs in the Calvert The Northern Moonsnail, Euspira [formerly Formation Shattuck zone 10. Ward and Blackwelder Lunatia] heros (Say, 1822) and Shark Eye, Neverita (1975) listed a maximum length of 57.4 mm for C. [formerly Polinices] duplicatus4 (Say, 1822) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Naticidae) occur commonly in the Maryland Miocene [15.97-0.012 Ma]. Grey et Newsletter website: http://calvertmarinemuseum.com/204/The-Ecphora-Newsletter 6 The Ecphora June 2020 al. (2005) suggested that the extant and fossil forms mm long) had penetrating borings, which had not represent different species based on differences in healed. In another specimen, the shape of the scallop their boreholes. Dietl and Alexander (2000) also shell edge had clearly been modified by the attached suggested these forms were different species. We will barnacles. call them the same since this controversy is unresolved. Discussion Ward and Blackwelder (1975) stated Materials and Methods Chesapecten spp. rested on their right valves. Figure We examined and measured 187 scallops, 1 shows a Chesapecten nefrens right valve with an Chesapecten spp., valves from float and block fall- extensive growth of the epibionic barnacle B. c. down at Scientists’ Cliffs, Maryland. No permits were chesapeakensis. The presences of barnacles on fossil necessary. C. nefrens right and left valves indicates individuals of this species rested on either valve. Koninsky (2018) Results illustrates three complete C. nefrens from Maryland Ninety-nine specimens of C. nefrens (52.9%) or Virginia. Their dorsal valves (i.e. the left valve) had were left valves and 88 (47.1%) right valves. The no barnacles, but two of the three ventral valves (the length of our specimens ranged from 9.8-150.0 mm. right valves) had barnacles. This suggests they rested Barnacles occurred on 41 or 26.4% of the total valves. on their “dorsal” valves. Of the valves with barnacles, 16 or 39.0% were left Vermeij and Ruch (2018) found the fossil and 25 or 61.0% were right valves. barnacle, Chesaconcavus chesapeakensis Zullo, Eight specimens of C. coccymelus ranged in 1932, in the Windmill Point Member of the St. Marys size from 31.8 to 154.0 mm. Two (78.0 and 115.0 mm Formation (upper Miocene, Tortonian) of Maryland long) left valves had barnacles (Fig. 2). only attached to living mollusks. The scallop, Chesapecten santamaria (Tucker, 1934), was one of the hosts they studied. The barnacle B. c. chesapeakensis, also, only attached to live C. nefrens scallops. If these barnacles had attached to dead scallop shells, then some would have been found attached inside empty shells. We have not seen this form of attachment. Also, cyprid larvae attaching to dead shells would be smothered by sedimentation. Barnacle larvae would also not have access to the valve of the scallop resting on the substratum. Therefore, barnacles would only attach and grow on the upper valve of the scallop. Barnacles are also known to attach and live for some time on scallop shells because large ones are known to modify the shape of scallop shells. We observed a case of this distortion. Figure 2. Six of the 8 specimens of Chesapecten Since we found this barnacle on both left and coccymelus including the 154.0 mm long, 135.5 high, right valves of C. nefrens, individuals of this scallop right valve; and a left valve with barnacles. rested on either valve. We are not aware of any extant Photograph by L. Bunkley-Williams. or fossil scallop species in which individuals rest on either valve. This situation has interesting biological Five (2.7%) of the specimens of C. nefrens implications. Other fossil scallop species should be (48.0 left, 55.0 right, 115.0 right, 126.5 right, 128 re-examined with this Barnacle Orientation Indicator. right, valves mm long) had single scars from Although left valves were more abundant in compression fractures. Six (3.2%)(50.5 left, 54.0 left, the samples (52.9% vs 47.1%), right valves with 81.6 right, 86.5 right, 95.0 right, 145.0 right, valves attached barnacles were more abundant (61.0% vs Newsletter website: http://calvertmarinemuseum.com/204/The-Ecphora-Newsletter 7 The Ecphora June 2020
39.0%). This suggests more individuals of this scallop Euspira heros and N. duplicatus are the only large, may have rested on their left valve than on their right. common naticid cohorts of C. nefrens. They are However, more specimens should be examined before known to produce a diagnostic, round, counter-sunk this can be confirmed. Most modern scallops rest on boring and their fossils are abundant along Calvert their left valve. Cliffs. Grey et al. (2005) examined naticid boreholes We do not believe the presence of epibiontic from the upper Miocene St. Marys Formation (8-5 barnacles have been recognized as an indication of mya), but did not identify boreholes to species. Casey bivalve orientation since each different species of et al. (2015) found fossil boreholes showed more bivalve has been thought to always rest on the same variations than previously assumed and were difficult side. This Barnacle Orientation Indication can be a to identify to predator species. They also suggested new tool in paleontology, taphonomy, and marine muricids, such as Ecphora spp., could make O. biology. paraboloides-like boreholes. However, C. nefrens Silina and Zhukova (2015) examined fatty was not a preferred host of Ecphora spp. acids of the “marine mobile scallop” [all scallops are Naticids typically attack prey in the sediment, marine] Patinopectin yessornsis (Jay, 1857) and its but they have been observed to attack prey (such as epibiotic barnale, Balanus rostratus Hoek, 1857. scallops) on the surface (Kelley and Hansen, 2003). Light infestations of barncales showed no effect on Clemens et al. (2013) used beach-collected, dead the scallop host, although they were eating the same shells with this characteristic borehole to demonstrate things. Heavy infections of barnacles were parasitic, the extant E. heros has a broader range of prey species reducing the weight and shell height of the scallop. than was recorded in the literature (15 to 24, 60% Buschbaum and Saler (2001) found the presence of increase). Fossil E. heros may also have had a broad barnacles significantly reduced the growth of range of fossil prey. More fossil mollusks should be mussels, but contrary to Silina and Zhukova (2015), examined for these boreholes at Scientists’ Cliffs. this was not due to competition for food. Vermeij and Predators probably attacked scallops by Ruch (2018) found barnacles did not harm a covering them from their top. If they attacked from gastropod, but reduced the growth of a scallop. A the bottom or side, the scallop could just swim away. number of other studies have shown harm by Two of the boreholes in C. nefrens were in left valves barnacles reduced swimming and escape ability in and four were in right valves. This is additional infected scallops (e.g., Donovan et al., 2003). Of evidence that individual C. nefrens rested on right or concern in this study, is the possible reduction of the left valves and that the barnacle indications are height of the left valve. Since the inflation of both correct. Clements and Rawlings (2014) found E. valves are rather similar, this might have caused the heros attacked bivalves equally on either valve. valves to have been confused. We do not believe this However, these were on sediment-submerged occurred because the wings (AKA ears or articles) of bivalves, not scallops on the surface. Gray et al. the two valves of C. nefrens are quite distinctive, but (2005) could distinguish boreholes of extant E. heros we must mention the possibility. and N. duplicatus. Their fossil forms may also be Some (2.7%) C. nefrens survived compaction separated using their criteria. More study of these fractures, possibly from spotted eagle rays, Aetobatus fossils is needed. sp.; eagle rays, Myliobatis sp.; and cownosed rays, We examined a 154.0 mm long, 135.5 high, Rhinoptera sp. The fossil tooth plate pieces of these right valve of C. coccymelus in the collection of durophagic species are commonly found at Scientists’ Crawford Feagan at Scientists’ Cliffs (Fig. 2). This Cliffs. This is a total repair frequency of 0.027; or specimen is much longer than the greatest published 0.034 and 0.333 per size class, although the data is length for this species (57.4 mm, Ward and very limited (N=59 and N=9, respectively) Blackwelder, 1975). (Alexander and Dietl, 2003). The 3.2% of C. nefrens with boreholes in the Acknowledgments valves were probably killed by predators. The shape We thank Drs. Stephen J. Godfrey, Calvert of two of these boreholes (Oichnus paraboloides of Marine Museum, and Buck Ward for reviewing the Bromley, 1981) suggests they were made by naticids. manuscript; Dr. Peter R. Vogt, Scientists Cliffs, for Newsletter website: http://calvertmarinemuseum.com/204/The-Ecphora-Newsletter 8 The Ecphora June 2020 assistance, and information; Crawford and Jeffrey 5, pages 113–139 In: P. H. Kelley, M. Kowalewski, and Feagin for logistical support; and Dr. Joseph R. T. A. Hansen (Eds.) Predator-prey interactions in the fossil record. Kluwer Academic/Pelnum Publishers, Sullivan for advice on Latin names. New York. Koninsky, J. 2018. Fossil invertebrate identification guide for References Cited the Calvert Cliffs of Maryland and the Horsehead Cliffs of Virginia. Alexander, R. R. and G. P. Dietl. 2003. The fossil record of shell- http://www.fossilguy.com/sites/calvert/calv_inv.htm breaking predation in marine bivalves and gastropods. Lister, Martin. 1687. Historae Conchyliorum Liber III, Chapter 6, pages 141–176 In: P. H. Kelley, M. copperplate. Kowalewski, and T. A. Hansen (Eds.) Predator-prey Say, T. 1822. An account of some of the marine shells of the interactions in the fossil record. Kluwer United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Academic/Pelnum Publishers, New York. Sciences of Philadelphia 2:221–248, 257-276, 302-325. Annonymous. 2003. A field guide to the fossils of Calvert Cliffs. http://olivirv.myspecies.info/sites/olivirv.myspecies.in Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, Maryland, 93 pp. fo/files/An%20account%20on%20some%20of%20the & 29 pp. of plates. %20marin%20-%20Say%2C%20T_.pdf Anonymous. 2015. Miocene barnacles on a scallop shell from Say, T. 1824. An account of some of the fossil shells of Calvert Cliffs Maryland. The Fossil Forum, posted by Maryland: Academy of Natural Sciences of Jeffrey P., 2:35 pm 20 April. Philadelphia Journal 4(ser. 1):124–155. http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/gallery/im Silina, A. 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Paleobiology 41:680–696. genus of Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the Clements, J. C. and T. A. Rawlings. 2014. Ontogenetic shifts in Miocene and Pliocene of eastern North America. the predatory habits of the Northern Moonsnail Geological Survey Professional Paper 861: iv, 24 pp., (Lunatia heros) on the northwestern Atlantic Coast. & 27 pls. http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0861/report.pdf Journal of Shellfish Research 33:755-768. https://doi.org/10.2983/035.033.0310 1Extraordinary Professors, Potchefstroom Campus, North-West Clements, J. C., M. Ellsworth-Power, and T. A. Rawlings. 2013. University, South Africa; 2Professor, Department of Marine Diet breath of the Northern Moonsnail, Lunatia heros, Sciences, and 3Professor and Chair, Department of Biology, on the northwestern Atlantic coast (Naticidae). University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (retired). American Malacological Bulletin 31:331-336. Dietl, G. P. and R. R. Alexander. 2000. Post-Miocene shift in 4There is considerable disagreement in the literature about the stereotypic naticid predation on cofamilial prey from specific epithet ending of Natica duplicata Say, 1822, with the mid-Atlantic shelf: coevolution with dangerous various genetic assignments. The specific epithet duplicata was prey. Palaios 15: 414–429. from the Latin duplico for double and –atus Latin for pertaining Donovan, D. A., B. L. Bingham, M. From, A. F. Fleisch, and E. to. Some authors follow ICZN (1999, Art. 31.2. Agreement in S. Loomis. 2003. Effects of barnacle encrustation on the gender) changing the ending to agree with the gender of the swimming behaviour, energetics, morphometry, and genus name. Others follow ICZN (1999: Art. 31.2.2. unknown if drag coefficient of the scallop, Chlamys hastata. adjective or noun in apposition) leaving duplicata unchanged. Journal of the Marine Biology Association of the We believe the correct form is changing duplicata. United Kingdom 83: 4230.1-4230.7. Biology. 9. ☼ https://cedar.wwu.edu/biology_facpubs/9 Grey, M., E. Boulding, and M. E. Brookfield. 2005. Shape differences among boreholes drilled by three difference Two New Shark Species Identified species of Naticid gastripods. Journal of Molluscan Studies 71:253–256. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/world/sharks-new- http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/71/3/253.full species-scn/index.html Kelley, P. H. and T. A. Hansen. 2003. The fossil record of drilling predation on bivalves and gastropods. Chapter Submitted by Mel Gallipeau. ☼ Newsletter website: http://calvertmarinemuseum.com/204/The-Ecphora-Newsletter 9 The Ecphora June 2020
Australian Paleo Superlatives
At last year’s annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Brisbane, Australia, Dr. Michael Archer (from the PANGEA Research Center in Sydney Australia), gave a presentation on famous firsts or superlatives in Australian paleontology. In the coming issues of The Ecphora, I will include one or more of his PowerPoint slides that he sent to me for this purpose.
Image courtesy of Dr. Michael Archer. Smithsonian Institution) will speak on the preservation of blood in the fossil record. ☼ CALVERT MARINE MUSEUM
FOSSIL CLUB EVENTS HISTORY OF PALEONTOLOGY Saturday, September 12th, 2020. Club meeting 1pm followed at 2:30 by a public lecture in the Harms WITHIN THE Gallery. Dr. Matt Carrano (Paleobiology at the NATIONAL PARK SERVICE National Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institution) will speak on dinosaurs. Here is a link to a new website dedicated to the History of NPS Paleontology. Saturday, November 14th, 2020. Annual potluck lunch and Club meeting at 12 noon in the Harms https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fossils/history-of- Gallery followed at 2:30 by a public lecture in the paleontology-in-the-national-park-service.htm Harms Gallery. Dr. Dale Greenwalt (Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History, The Submitted by Dr. Vince Santucci. Newsletter website: http://calvertmarinemuseum.com/204/The-Ecphora-Newsletter 10 The Ecphora June 2020
Editor’s Note: “The best-laid plans of mice and On July 10, 2018, the revisions are done, after a short men often go awry.” A manuscript submitted to a delay about which we feel very guilty... On September 24, scientific journal can encounter bumps on the road to 2018, we ask for news. We receive a reply on the same day: publication. Below is one such account by a colleague “Please accept my apologies for the delay to your of mine. manuscript. Given the nature and extent of the revisions requested, the Associate Editor decided to seek re-review
by the original peer reviewers.” It must be acknowledged Amazing Tribulations of a Draft that the revisions to our text were very...minor! Same exchanges (with the same reply from the secretariat) on Submitted to a Prestigious November 1st. On December 10, 2018, in light of the Journal apathy of the staff (or the computer code?) of the secretariat of the journal, we contact the Editor. Automatic Dear colleagues, system response on December 11, 2018. Reminders on I would like to share with you the tribulations of a text January 9, 2019 and on February 13; we always get the that was recently published in a prestigious journal. You same automatic responses. However, glimmer of hope: our already think it must have been an exceptional experience! reminder of February 18 triggers responses, probably I confirm! Here is the chronology of events, which speaks stemming from a Homo sapiens. Even two H. sapiens! On for itself. October 20, 2017: submission of our manuscript February 20, we receive a long letter from the secretariat to the famous journal. October 24, 2017: rejection, but with detailing the status of the manuscript, with a promise to act quickly. The outcome must be very close! But on March an offer to transfer the article to another journal in the same th group. Decision in 4 days; unbeatable! We are eager to 14, we still send an “n” reminder, followed by others on accept this attractive offer! April 4, 8 and 24; answer on May 2: we are still asked to wait! On May 8, we get angry and ask for a decision by On October 30, the problems began: our request for May 15, 2019, threatening to withdraw our draft and, more the discount to which we were entitled under the agreement importantly, to request a refund of the amounts paid. The between the University of one of the co-authors and the staff (or the code?) may be struggling with English, but publisher was rejected because this agreement must exist they speak € ($) very well! The article is finally accepted with the institution of the corresponding author (me). on May 13, 2019. Think about it: "only" about 1400 € ($1500) to publish in this fabulous journal, instead of the very affordable regular The production was fast, even if we were entitled to price of about 1750 € ($1900). How could we resist? We page proofs. However, the production team did not see the quickly respond that we want to change the correspondent big numbering problem in the in-text citations (numbering in order to benefit from this fabulous discount. Then, jumps from 16 to 26 in these citations, following suddenly, it seems that the staff (or computer code?) of the reorganizations of the draft) and we had to send some journal no longer understands English, because we never corrections at least twice. Given the competence of all the received a response to this request. However, we received staff we have dealt with from the start, we dare not ask for repeated reminders (October 24, November 1) to complete correction of this little citation numbering problem, which online forms (the part where I had to agree to pay € 1,750 goes unnoticed in the two series of proofs. However, all is in publication costs). From November 3 to 6, without any well which ends well; the article got a lot of attention very help from the journal, we managed to edit the article so that quickly. So, are you tempted to publish in this wonderful my co-author appeared as a correspondent; we avoided journal? If you want to know the journal name, just contact withdrawing and resubmitting. Immediate confirmation by me. the publisher of the discount. Submitted by Michel Laurin [email protected] ☼ Was the worst past? No! On March 1, 2018, after 4 months, we get impatient and ask for an update of the status of the manuscript. From the next day (March 2), Phenome 10k response from the secretariat: reports are available. Great! We will have the decision very quickly, then, right? https://phenome10k.org/ - Welcome to Phenome10K. This Unfortunately, on April 22, 2018, we have to contact the site provides 3D scans – CT and surface – of biological and journal staff again. It was very useful because the decision paleontological specimens for free download by the was sent to us barely … 4 weeks later, May 17! In addition, academic and educational community. Search and in line with the incredible speed of the evaluation process, contribute today! we are given a whole month to revise the text! Submitted by Alberto Collareta. ☼ Newsletter website: http://calvertmarinemuseum.com/204/The-Ecphora-Newsletter 11 The Ecphora June 2020
Large Ocean Sunfish Beak Found Rare Echinoid Found Locally
Claire Leonard found this rare echinoid locally. Its Walt Johns found this large and very well preserved specific identity is still unknown. Photos taken by ocean sunfish beak along the Potomac River recently. Claire Leonard and submitted by Mary Baluss. ☼ Photos submitted by Walt Johns. ☼
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