We occasionally find and upload fossils. They have ecological significance for our region. When I uploaded some foam oysters, they were marked as casual because there was no particular policy for handling them. When I recently uploaded an ammonite, it had the identification field of fossil added wi…

I think iNaturalist is meant to be used for living extant and recently extinct lifeforms, not those that went extinct long enough ago to become fossils.

Undoing Casual Tag to Use Fossil Identification

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Undoing Casual Tag to Use Fossil Identification

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