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Name the Bug 12

By Christopher Taylor at 1/20/2010 06:48:00 pm


Diameter is 3.5 mm. Attribution to follow.

Update: Identity available here. Figure from Kozłowski (1949).

6 comments:

  1. Mike Taylor20 January 2010 at 21:22

    Freakishly well-preserved osteoderm from a really, really tiny titanosaur?

    JK.

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  2. mzec20 January 2010 at 21:42

    Acorn barnacle?

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  3. AYDIN ÖRSTAN21 January 2010 at 01:20

    A spicule from a holothurian?

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  4. Christopher Taylor21 January 2010 at 10:19

    Nope, none of those...

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  5. Anonymous21 January 2010 at 13:53

    How about Acanthastus luniewskii Kozlowski, 1948? Or something along those lines... ;-)

    Cheers,
    --Howard

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  6. Christopher Taylor21 January 2010 at 14:41

    Something like that, yes :D

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