Thanks,  I've always wondered about this...what ever you were talking about.

On 10/25/03 8:43 PM, "Andrew Grebneff"
<andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> wrote:

>> Hi, Andrew!
>>
>> Here is the first view; I don't seem to be able to send both views
>> on the same e-mail, evem though I've followed instructions; and if I
>> put them both in a folder, nobody can seem to open it.
>>
>> Here goes,
>> Linda
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>> Your files are attached and ready to send with this message.
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>> Attachment converted: 36 GB:Suspect Bivalve 001 (2).jpg (JPEG/ogle)
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>
> Hi Linda
>
> Those sure look like lepadomorph scuta to me. I was fooled by a
> Recent one too... had it cataloged as an aplysiomorph (seahare)
> gastropod for a few years... Bruce Marshall spotted my mistake.
>
> If you look closely you will see that there is not a bivalve hinge
> structure; if held under a strong low-angle elgih, the muscle scars
> will be nonmolluscan also.
>
> I attach an image of my fossil specimen (cc to list will strip it);
> it is an unusually strongly-sculptured form. Measures about 30mm, so
> it's a huge gooseneck, too. I will have John Buckeridge, a barnacle
> specialist, examine it when he's down in Dunedin for the Geological
> Society Conference in November. And if I'm right, it will be
> recataloged in the Geology Dept collection!
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin, New Zealand
> 64 (3) 473-8863
> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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