[Nhcoll-l] Brachiopod brachidium models

[Dean Pentcheff]

Those are sooo cool. Strangely, they don't seem to be for sale any more:
https://www.wardsci.com/store/product?keyword=brachiopod

-Dean
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Dean Pentcheff
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pentcheff at nhm.org <dpentche at nhm.org>
https://research.nhm.org/disco



On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM Jennifer Bauer <bauerjen at umich.edu> wrote:

> Thanks Paul and everyone else who responded! A mystery is solved and our
> database is updated appropriately.
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM Paul Mayer <pmayer at fieldmuseum.org> wrote:
>
>> They look like a collection we have from The Ward's Natural Science
>> Establishment.
>>
>> See attached images.
>>
>> [image: 20250402_105359.jpg][image: 20250402_105336.jpg][image:
>> 20250402_105417.jpg]
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM Jennifer Bauer <bauerjen at umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I'm looking to get proper identifications and some history on the
>>> specimens in the attached images. We have around 10 different variations of
>>> brachidium that were found in our teaching collection.
>>>  - Was this something produced by Wards or someone else?
>>>  - Does anyone have a similar set with identifications or any labels?
>>>  - Does anyone have suggestions on resources to identify them myself? I
>>> did my best using the treatise but I am less than confident in about half
>>> of them.
>>> Any information would be helpful!
>>> Thank you kindly,
>>> Jen
>>>
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>>> University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
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