Daily mollusk - well played title 🧪

I'm sure this trend in sedimentology research by Xu et al. (doi.org/10.1016/j.gr...) is representative for most, if not all areas of science. Much of it due to misuse of impact factors and citation numbers.

A logo I designed many years ago for my working group but never used it. It is based on the Lower Miocene gastropod Astele chilensis.

Pecten simpsoni Philippi, 1887 from the Lower Miocene of Chiloé Island, southern Chile

A specimen of Stramonita zinsmeisteri DeVries, 2007 from the Pliocene La Cueva Formation, central Chile. It was figured in Nielsen (2013), link below. The specimen is in the paleontology collection of MNHN Santiago, Chile. 🧪

Long time no post. Was digging the Neogene in northern Chile. So, here's a daily mollusk: A type specimen of Dentalium majus, collected by Darwin himself in Chile, housed at @nhm-london.bsky.social 🧪

We described this species originally as Zonaria frassinettii Groves & Nielsen, 2003. The shown holotype comes from the Lower Miocene Navidad Formation of central Chile. I just noted that last year it was moved to the genus Apiocypraea (see www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=...). 🧪

A follow-up on a previous post. This is Xenophora paulinae Nielsen & DeVries, 2002, a gastropod from the Lower Miocene Navidad Formation of central Chile. The paper is now open access at www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8270611

Daily mollusk. Struthiochenopus echtleri Nielsen & Encinas, 2014. Middle Miocene (?), Isla Mocha, Chile

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Congratulations to Javiera Roco for defending her graduate thesis about Miocene Chilean Scaphopoda last Monday!

Done with scholargoggler.com
Thx @nelsonvaldivia.bsky.social for the idea