Gleaning should at least be allowed, but it’s easier to enforce an absolute moritorium.
Laws and ordinances fo change, though.
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Hi friends!
BioLogos is hosting a nature photo contest and I immediately thought of all you fine people in this thread and your awesome photos of your backyards and explorations.
Would love if you would submit one of your favorites!
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There are also some places where an entire community got smothered intact by mud from a storm (generally a calmer area like a sound before). My grandfather examined one from the Pliocene, I remember.
Given that the sign says Ordovician, those are going to be brachiopods rather than bivalves (mollusks only became dominant in the benthos after the Permo-Triassic Extinction depleted brachiopod diversity).
Those gastropods appear to be members of some of the weird Paleozoic-only groups like Macluritidae (120 and 122 are probably that family). 119 might be some sort of vetigastropod (slit-shell or top-shell -ish).
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Timothy, you are amazing!
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I wish I’d know that yesterday morning! I did a six-mile bike ride yesterday with my pup Knox running along, and coming back on the beach I passed some incredible sand formations carved by waves and wind!
But today I re-learned just how hard the back muscles work when biking mildly rough terrain with a backpack, so there was no way I was going back out there in hopes today’s high tide formed similar formations – I’m having enough pain just lifting my laptop!
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You would have found out a day earlier if you were on the email list 
you can join here!
But truly i hope you are feeling better soon! The second day is also always so brutal. My legs were sore on Monday from walking around the zoo on Saturday!!
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Sorry about the confusion. This is why I want the professionally done book. It’s going to take for ever for me to organize these photos.
The slab of fossils with the Ordovician sign is from a different case than the mollusks.
This photo
goes with this label plaque:
which is the bottom of the plaque that starts with:
and goes with:
Does this help?
I feel like I’m translating French to Spanish. When I can get them all loaded up to Google Drive, I’ll give you access.
[Edit 18/08/2023, 14:44 – Right now the photos are still uploading, and it may take a few more hours. Below is the link to the folder of ALL the photos, the good, the bad and the ugly. Each pillar in the display covers a different chronological era in the geology, and the pillars are in chronological order. The file times and names are in order by display pillar. Although the pillars are each arranged using the same layout, it took me a few pillars to notice that, so I didn’t photograph the individual pillars in the same order. However, each pillar’s photos should be clustered together. Finally, the link: Indiana State Museum Fossils - Google Drive
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@klw and other Canadians, are you and your friends and family ok? Last I checked, the ones of you I know are far away already.
Thanks. Praying for rain
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Found a nice fringe orchid.
Tracyi Sundew. ( carnivorous plant )
Missouri Iron weed.
Wild southern raisin tree ( not actually related to grapes)
Also made this to eat. Was fairly tasty.
I basically just got all the “veggies” I had that I did not eat and went ahead and ate them along with a mock meat.
Now I’m about to have kvass with rose petal, maple almond and pistachio encrusted Turkish delight lol. It’s my dessert. It’s a mini plate by the way. Those are about the size of a finger. In case anyone was wondering.
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Thanks for your concern and prayers, Randy. So far the Vancouver area is suffering from drought and heatwaves but not directly by fires. But large out-of-control blazes are just a couple hours drive inland, so we’re all a bit worried and it seems that everyone around here knows someone who’s been evacuated. I’ve been feeling lots of “ecological grief” lately to see the cedar trees here brown and dying. And they think the salmon run may not survive because the Fraser River is too hot and shallow right now 
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Sigh! Grand Haven!!!
I was thinking today it was a perfect “Up North” day even here downstate. I pretend I can hear the Lakes in the trees, when the wind rushes through them. And the pins in the yard sound like the ones at my Aunt’s in Greenbush on Huron, when I was a kid. sigh.
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I didn’t know you were so photogenic! 
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Conocardium is a rostroconch; Palaeotrochus and Turbonopsis are palaeotrochids and Pleuronotus is a euomphalid, both of those are “Paleozoic basal taxa which are certainly Gastropoda” according to Bouchet et al., 2017.
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Translation, please?
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Rostroconch shells look kind of like bivalves’ (clams’), but they only had one valve. Some of the early rostroconchs seem to have been ancestors of scaphopods (tusk shells), bivalves (clams), or both. “Paleozoic basal taxa which are certainly Gastropoda” essentially means: 1. the group went extinct before the Mesozoic; 2. they seem to be more distantly related to any of the modern groups than any of the modern groups are to each other; and 3. researchers have extremely high confidence that they had soft-body torsion, and were thus gastropods and not “monoplacophorans” (broad-sense).
Does that help sufficiently?
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Thinking of bivalves/clams, where are cockles classified?
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“Cockle” is the generic common name for most members of Cardiidae (giant clams are really weird derived cardiids). Within clams, they are closest to Tellinoidea, which consists of Donacidae (coquinas), Tellinidae (macomas, tellins, etc.), Psammobiidae (sunset clams), Semelidae (semeles and some other things that I don’t know common names for, like Abra, Cumingia, and Ervilia), and Solecurtidae (stout razor clams). Common names are generally not something I can or need to remember, though.
If you want a detailed phylogeny of Bivalvia, the easiest to access current one would be at molluscabase.org
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Yes, thank you VERY much. I need to sit down and work through what you wrote, but there’s hope.
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