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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Opening a new jacket
The video above shows me opening a new jacket in the lab. According to our field notes it should contain vertebrae and ribs from the Carmel Church whale we’ve been preparing since March.
Posted in "Sinistra", Carmel Church mysticetes, Carmel Church Quarry, Chesapeake Group
Tagged Cetaceans
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Carmel Church trips
We had two trips to Carmel Church last week, one for the American Fossil Federation and the other for Chesapeake Bay Academy. Many of our most interesting specimens have been found by participants on VMNH trips to the site.
Fossils from Aurora, North Carolina
Yesterday Paul Murdoch sent me this photo of vertebrae that he collected at the Lee Creek Mine in North Carolina. They were all found together in a block of sediment, most likely the Early Pliocene Sunken Meadow Member of the … Continue reading
SVP meeting–Day 4 (updated)
Tyrannosaurus rex from the American Museum of Natural History. Today is the fourth and final day of the SVP meeting. After lots of mammal talks, I decided to watch some of the dinosaur talks today for a change of pace.
SVP meeting–Day 3
The large Pleistocene cat Homotherium serum, from Texas (in the Texas Memorial Museum.) There were several interesting mammal talks today. Two of these involved fossil land mammals that were found in sedimentary rocks that were formed in the ocean. Kevin Seymour … Continue reading
SVP meeting–Day 2 (updated)
This morning we visited the Texas Memorial Museum. Visitors are greeted at the entrance by this life-sized bronze statue of the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon. Inside the museum has a variety of exhibits on natural history, concentrating on Texas wildlife and paleontology. Some … Continue reading
SVP meeting–Day 1 (Final update)
After registering this morning, we attended a couple of talks on Pleistocene fossils, including Blaine Schubert from East Tennessee State University on the giant short-faced bear, Arctodus simus (the example above is from the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.) Schubert showed photos of … Continue reading
Geaux fossils!
We spent Monday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I lived here for 8 years while working on my Ph.D. at Louisiana State University. This was my first trip back since 2000. Our visit included a brief trip to see LSU’s mascot, … Continue reading
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On the road to Austin
Last night (actually early this morning) we checked into a motel in Chattanooga, TN. As we were parking we noticed a cut through some sedimentary rocks at the back of the lot, and checked them out this morning as we … Continue reading
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New in the lab, and upcoming travel
We had a big day today, as we moved three new jackets into the lab. All three jackets (with an estimated combined weight of around half a ton!) come from the 14-million-year-old sediments at the Carmel Church Quarry in Caroline … Continue reading
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Updates from the Paleontology Lab 