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jazzy009 wrote:

soobsession wrote:
As for species that are on the list, I think gneiss said that proctors are allowed up to 5 specimen that are not on the list? I got a random dinosaur that started with an "M" on my regional test, but most of the specimen should be from the list.

Maiasaura?

Yep. That's the one. However, the station only asked us to identify the Order of the dinosaur (Ornithischia/Saurischia). We put Ornithischia so we got that one right. Perhaps they got the dinosaur confused with Mosasaur? Not exactly the easiest thing to confuse it with but...

soobsession wrote:

jazzy009 wrote:

soobsession wrote:
As for species that are on the list, I think gneiss said that proctors are allowed up to 5 specimen that are not on the list? I got a random dinosaur that started with an "M" on my regional test, but most of the specimen should be from the list.

Maiasaura?

Yep. That's the one. However, the station only asked us to identify the Order of the dinosaur (Ornithischia/Saurischia). We put Ornithischia so we got that one right. Perhaps they got the dinosaur confused with Mosasaur? Not exactly the easiest thing to confuse it with but...

How do you know that it started with an M if you couldn't identify it? You could have mixed it up with an Iguanadon or something...

amerikestrel wrote: How do you know that it started with an M if you couldn't identify it? You could have mixed it up with an Iguanadon or something...

The name was written on the sheet of paper with the image on it. All we had to do was identify the order.

5 not on the list...so like 5 genus?

That's interesting though, im totally cool if the gave use a gastropod and asked us to specify wat class, but how could we prepare for a genus we dont know?

Also, 2 questions on corals:

1. Is hexagonaria a horn coral? I know its colonial, but on petrified wood museum, it said it was a horn coral....

2. Is Favosites or Septastrea Honeycomb Coral? They both look like it....

Opps...3. Wat was the time range of Septastrea....grr i hate making pages for such obscure invertebrates so little info on the web...

soobsession wrote:

amerikestrel wrote: How do you know that it started with an M if you couldn't identify it? You could have mixed it up with an Iguanadon or something...

The name was written on the sheet of paper with the image on it. All we had to do was identify the order.

I see. Well, that makes it a little better. They probably expected you to be able to tell the difference between saurischians and ornithischians just by looking.

lllazar wrote:5 not on the list...so like 5 genus?

That's interesting though, im totally cool if the gave use a gastropod and asked us to specify wat class, but how could we prepare for a genus we dont know?

Also, 2 questions on corals:

1. Is hexagonaria a horn coral? I know its colonial, but on petrified wood museum, it said it was a horn coral....

2. Is Favosites or Septastrea Honeycomb Coral? They both look like it....

Opps...3. Wat was the time range of Septastrea....grr i hate making pages for such obscure invertebrates so little info on the web...

Okay. I know this is not really relevant, but it's just a pet peeve of mine. The correct grammar is "...so like 5 genera". Genera is the plural of genus. Sorry... that just irks me the most.

1. Umm... I'm not sure Hexagonaria is a horn coral. In the petrified wood museum, it said "Solitary rugose corals are called horn corals. Hexagonaria is a colonial rugose coral that was an important reef builder during the Devonian." SInce Hexagonaria is a colonial coral, it is probably not a horn coral. Also, if you look at many of the pictures of Hexagonaria, they are not horn corals.

2. Well I'm positive Favosites is a honeycomb coral. I barely have any information on Septastrea myself, however looking at the pictures...

Favosites:


Septastrea:


From the pictures, you can tell that though both of them are honeycombish, Septastrea has the septae (?) arranged in the honeycomb things... yeah...

3. I have down Pliocene (http://paleobackup.nceas.ucsb.edu:8090/ ... n_no=98646)

soobsession wrote:

lllazar wrote:5 not on the list...so like 5 genus?

That's interesting though, im totally cool if the gave use a gastropod and asked us to specify wat class, but how could we prepare for a genus we dont know?

Also, 2 questions on corals:

1. Is hexagonaria a horn coral? I know its colonial, but on petrified wood museum, it said it was a horn coral....

2. Is Favosites or Septastrea Honeycomb Coral? They both look like it....

Opps...3. Wat was the time range of Septastrea....grr i hate making pages for such obscure invertebrates so little info on the web...

Okay. I know this is not really relevant, but it's just a pet peeve of mine. The correct grammar is "...so like 5 genera". Genera is the plural of genus. Sorry... that just irks me the most.

1. Umm... I'm not sure Hexagonaria is a horn coral. In the petrified wood museum, it said "Solitary rugose corals are called horn corals. Hexagonaria is a colonial rugose coral that was an important reef builder during the Devonian." SInce Hexagonaria is a colonial coral, it is probably not a horn coral. Also, if you look at many of the pictures of Hexagonaria, they are not horn corals.

2. Well I'm positive Favosites is a honeycomb coral. I barely have any information on Septastrea myself, however looking at the pictures...

Favosites:


Septastrea:


From the pictures, you can tell that though both of them are honeycombish, Septastrea has the septae (?) arranged in the honeycomb things... yeah...

3. I have down Pliocene (http://paleobackup.nceas.ucsb.edu:8090/ ... n_no=98646)

Thanks a lot...so its rugose but not horn, and both fovsites and spetastrea are honeycomb...

Man im on Turritella now and its soo much easier than corals and brozoans....

Sorry for the double post....are belemnitella their own individual genus or are they the body parts of another cephalopod?

Thanks in advance

lllazar wrote:Sorry for the double post....are belemnitella their own individual genus or are they the body parts of another cephalopod?

Thanks in advance

Umm... on the Fossils List it says "Genus- Belemnitella". I can only assume it's its own individual genus.

Also, Favosites is a tabulate coral, not a honeycomb coral.