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Discussion: ATLAS OF COMMON
SQUAMATOLOGICAL (FISH SCALE) MATERIAL IN COASTAL BRITISH COLUMBIA, AND AN
ASSESSMENT OF THE UTILITY OF VARIOUS SCALE TYPES IN PALEOFISHERIES
RECONSTRUCTION
R. Timothy Patterson, Cynthia Wright, Alice S. Chang, Leslie A. Taylor, Patrick D. Lyons, Audrey Dallimore, and Arun Kumar |
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Hey Tim!
Fantastic piece of work that I and others have waited a long time to see. I've been working as a paleontologist in the environmental industry for the past five years and have salvaged innumerable fish scales from construction site with only some rough sketches of common scales to refer. There has yet to be a publication devoted to fossil fish scales in California, and aside from some pictures here and there in other papers, there has been little to go on. Supposedly, some have made personal reference collections of modern scales, and the general consensus here is that they scale morphology crosses taxonomic lines and is therefore cannot relied on for most identifications. You have filled a great void by publishing this. Hopefully it'll be the impetus for someone to do likewise with the southern California fauna.
Ken Finger
Palaeontologia_Electronica@nhm.ac.uk