Sindia Sosdian

@sindiarocks.bsky.social

Marine biogeochemist, paleoceanographer, diverse scientist, surfer, mother

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The largest clams that ever lived were inoceramids, including genera like Platyceramus and Inoceramus. Some reached 1 m in size, and exceptional specimens have been found approaching 2 m! These huge flat boys lived like giant snowshoes on the bottoms of shallow seas during the Cretaceous. #clamFacts

A man stands with a large specimen of Inoceramus over 1 m in diameter. The shell is flat and has distinctive concentric ridges known from this family. Credit WikipediaSeveral Platyceramus platinus in an artists depictions, snowshoeing on a shallow soft bottom of the Cretaceous interior seaway, partially resting against each other like giant pancakes. Source: Oceans of Kansas

I must admit that this annotated Nature abstract remains a useful recipe for constructing a summary paragraph. I show it to my students every time we get started.

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Want to find all published ocean temperature records from the Miocene? Look no further than the Miocene Data Portal, home to 103 SST and 13 BWT records. Deposit your own data or look at global coverage for different proxies. Just have fun! bolin.su.se/data/miocene...

Miocene temperature portal | Bolin Centre Database

This data portal serves as a resource for investigators interested in the study of Miocene climate, about 23 to 5 million years ago. It collates a list of key information about published Miocene ocean...

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