paleonet Lost Rusophycus

["N. MacLeod" <N.MacLeod@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brian Pratt up in Saskatchewan is trying to track down a specimen 
first figured by the Fentons in a 1930s textbook. Brian says, "[this] 
image has had quite a lot of airtime (especially via A. Seilacher). 
It is a sketch of an arthropod burrow with interpretation. This is 
considered a quintessential Rusophycus. Anyway, the specimen is lost, 
but the hope is that it is kicking around a drawer in some midwestern 
US geology department."

The image Brian is referring to is up at the following url.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/paleonet/rusophycus.jpg

Has anyone seen this specimen? Please direct all replies to:

Brian R. Pratt
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Saskatchewan
114 Science Place
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2
Canada

tel.:  1-306-966-5725
fax:  1-306-966-8593
brian.pratt@usask.ca
http://www.usask.ca/geology/people.html

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