DeLong also enclosed a specimen of Kock's self-printed currency — the only tender he offered in wages to the emigrants, which he then took as payment for food and goods "at an enormous profit" to himself in a veritable company shop arrangement.
The analysis also included a specimen of the early Miocene European castorid, Steneofiber castorinus, and the Pliocene C. californicus of western North America.
Another rarely seen bone, the stapes (the reptilian ear bone), has also been seen in a specimen of Edmontosaurus.
A lot of the fossils are fragmentary remains of fish, but there is also a specimen that we think is part of a vertebra (backbone) that may be from a terrestrial vertebrate (also known as a tetrapod).
Also, a voucher specimen of the plant material used has been deposited at the herbarium of the Department of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University (reference number: SL-2-2013).
There is also a single specimen of a black catbird collected from Brownsville, Texas in 1892.
There are a few Pleistocene (2.6 million to 12,000 years ago) records from Europe and Israel of extant Regulus species, mostly goldcrests or unidentifiable to species, but also a Spanish specimen of firecrest.
Other assays included also carcinoma-associated fibroblasts derived from a specimen of tongue SCC.
After many plot twists, Derek Briggs started dissecting another ill-defined fossil in very thin slices and found a pair of Anomalocaris-like structures on one end of a specimen of Laggania, which also had a specimen of Peytoia attached just behind those of Anomalocaris.
Also included were a Pleistocene specimen of C. fiber and a specimen of the North American fossil taxon C. californicus.
A portrait photographer who deals with the dynamics of light, Fos is also a classic specimen from "an age of hobbyists—of passionate, though part-time, scientists".
