Looking for opinions on otolith estimation
Posted by Archeoichthy@reddit | marinebiology | View on Reddit | 1 comments
This is technically not about marine fishes but this is the only subreddit where I’ve seen people asking about otolith age estimation help. I have about 11 otoliths I have aged and I was wondering if people with experience would like to see if they agree/disagree with my estimations? I have a poster coming up for a conference and I’m just looking for others to cross check (since it’s the weekend, not sending my profs 11 .tiff files). Majority are all freshwater drums, they are archeological specimens except a few fresh ones so they had to be treated differently. I do not have them sawed in half, I have broken them and the burning technique doesn’t really help on specimens that are 800-1000ya. I have a picture of one of the broken otoliths here.
Symphurine_dreams@reddit
I pm'd you.