rowanmartindale.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ UT Austin researching extinctions (global carbon cycle perturbations), reef ecosystems, & exceptional fossilization. She/her/hers 🇨🇦
👤 Joined on 09 August 2023
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@rowanmartindale.bsky.socialAre you a postdoc or new faculty member who would benefit from an invited talk? My department is looking to bring someone for spring. Due to budgetary reasons, you must be either: 1. In driving distance to Orono, ME OR 2. Working on alpine or Arctic plants
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Show PostYes, I understood, it was in referral to the main builders, not the family itself. Ironically other bivalves took (But of course to very low extent) the reefal role after the TOAE in the region, namely the Ctenostreon bioherms [Pending Publication but teased previously in thesis]
Show PostAhh apologies, my bad then, I was assuming lithiotid=Plicatostylid! Suprising Opisoma doesn´t count since is often associated (Tough I understand not reef developer)
Show PostI think a distinction here is that some members of the 'Lithiotis fauna' persisted a long time, outliving the lithotids themselves (the long mudstickers, like Cochlearites and Lithiotis, who were the core reef framework builders)
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