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Monthly Archives: April 2010
New Carmel Church fish
The vertebra shown above is another of our “leftover” specimens from last August’s Carmel Church excavation. These “leftovers” are specimens that were removed when making trenches for plaster jackets; they are placed in bags and are generally the first things … Continue reading
World Tapir Day
At the Gray Fossil Site Symposium, Richard Hulbert from the Florida Museum of Natural History reminded everyone that today is World Tapir Day, and event and organization that supports tapir conservation efforts. There are four living species of tapir, and all are endangered to … Continue reading
Gray Fossil Site Symposium
This year is the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Gray Fossil Site near Gray Tennessee. In honor of the event, East Tennessee State Natural History Museum and the Don Sundquist Center of Excellence in Paleontology co-hosted a one-day symposium on … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Modern critters
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More donated Carboniferous plants
We’re currently in Tennessee for tomorrow’s symposium at the Gray Fossil Site (I’ll post about that this weekend). On the drive out, we stopped in Norton, Virginia to pick up a box of Carboniferous plant fossils being donated to the museum by … Continue reading
Posted in Paleobotany
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Xiphiacetus from Carmel Church
A common question I get from the public is “How do you identify a species?”. It happens that I’ve been trying to make a lot of identifications in preparation for my SEAVP talk, so this seems a good time to … Continue reading
Deformed shark vertebra
On our last day at Carmel Church we collected this very large, 6-cm-diameter shark vertebra from near the top of the bonebed. I think this is the largest shark vertebra we’ve ever collected there, although I have a few incomplete … Continue reading
Carmel Church crocodile follow-up
Back on April 3, I reported that we had recovered a huge crocodilian tooth from Carmel Church (Thecachampsa or Gavialosuchus, depending on which worker you listen to). I’ve now had time to get that tooth back to the lab, clean it up, and … Continue reading
Carmel Church Day 13
It’s a short post tonight, because we finished up this evening and closed down the pit. I had intended to remove three jackets, but we only ended up getting two out (both of them are visible above). As we tried … Continue reading
Posted in Carmel Church Quarry, Chesapeake Group
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Carmel Church Day 12
It rained last night and this morning, so we didn’t get into the pit until after lunch. Fortunately, our preparations last night kept everything in good shape, and the pit was pretty well drained. Our first task was to flip … Continue reading
Carmel Church Day 11
Today was a fairly brutal 11-hour marathon of trying to make trenches around the exposed bones, in preparation for making plaster jackets. This took on a new urgency this afternoon, as bad weather started moving in. Tim and I were … Continue reading
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