Re: paleonet Monoplacophoran specimens

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Boy, I wish I had one too, as well as a ton of other stuff.  Why don't we band together as a community and see who has what to swap?  I would swap any number of absolutely beautiful Upper Cretaceous Baculites with sutures, aragonite, etc for a really good few Archaeocyathids, for instance.  We all sit on unique fossil assemblages in our regions,  and I bet most of us have inherited amateur collections of same with not locality data.



Professor Peter D Ward
Dept of Biology
The University of Washington
Seattle, 98195
206-543-2962  ( Office )

On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Shimada, Kenshu wrote:

> Dear Paleo-netters,
>
> I teach a couple of paleo-related courses in Chicago (DePaul University)
> on a regular basis, and I'm also developing a couple of new courses.  In
> my classes, I use many demonstrations of actual fossils and casts/models
> of fossils as well as modern comparative specimens.
>
> I'm a bit embarrassed to ask this, but does anyone, or any institution,
> out there have surplus of monoplacophoran specimens who/that can share
> one or a few samples with me?  I can reimburse the shipping
> cost--provided that it won't be a mountain full of monoplacophorans! :)
> I know asking for extant specimens would be a stretch, but I don't have
> even one fossil specimen of this taxon to show to my students.  The
> specimen(s) does/do not need to be first class as long as it/they
> show(s) a characteristic limpet-like shell (but I note that I can
> tolerate two-dimensionally flattened specimens).  In fact, while it
> would still be nice to have the information, the specimen(s) does/do not
> need to accompany the exact locality and stratigraphic data for the
> purpose of my classes.  If you can help me out on this, please reply me
> off list.  Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
> Kenshu
> _________________________________
> Kenshu Shimada, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Environmental Science Program
>   and Department of Biological Sciences
> DePaul University
> 2325 N. Clifton Avenue
> Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA
>      and
> Research Associate in Paleontology
> Sternberg Museum of Natural History
> Fort Hays State University
> 3000 Sternberg Drive
> Hays, Kansas 67601, USA
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> http://www.fhsu.edu/sternberg/staff.shtml#paleo
> http://www.nikkei.co.jp/topic5/kyoryu/tokushu/20060712e2g0301i04.html#sh
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