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Name the Bug # 46

By Christopher Taylor at 2/07/2011 08:25:00 am

Attribution to follow.

Update: Identity now available here. Figure from Schatz (2004).

7 comments:

  1. Adam Yates7 February 2011 at 15:23

    Hmmm, Its a lophotrochozoan fr sure, but is it a Pecten-like bivalve or an Atrypa-like brachiopod? I'll take a wild guess at Aviculopecten a scallop-like bivalve.

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  2. intercostal7 February 2011 at 16:15

    Brachiopoda, Order Rhynchonellida?

    Past that, well, it looks a lot like a picture of Soaresirhynchia, except for the color, and that might be a mineralization thing... so I'll go with that.

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  3. Neil8 February 2011 at 00:17

    Daonella!

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  4. Paleo8 February 2011 at 01:58

    dunbarella sp.? looks like the ones we find at kinney quarry in NM

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  5. Anonymous8 February 2011 at 10:44

    I'm going to say a Pecten but I can't be more specific without more info.

    KPK

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  6. Christopher Taylor8 February 2011 at 13:03

    I must admit, it didn't occur to me that it might be mistaken for a brachiopod until after I'd put it up. I'm going to give two points to Neil, who got it right but didn't say why, and one point to Paleo. The main difference I can see to Dunbarella is that Daonella doesn't have the dorsal 'wing(s)' that Dunbarella (and Aviculopecten) have, but that might not be obvious in the photo if you didn't already know what it was.

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  7. Anonymous5 March 2011 at 01:27

    This is a Dunbarella. The line in the patten are specific. Also the shape contributes a lot to the species.

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