Fossil Friday 3/25/16: A basket clam
This week’s Fossil Friday feature is the basket clam Caryocorbula stena. This specimen was found in the Gatún Formation and … Continue
Fossil Friday 3/11/16: A corallum (Flabellum sp.)
This week’s Fossil Friday feature is the fossilized corallum, or coral skeleton, of a coral (Phylum Cnidaria, Class Anthozoa) called … Continue
Fossil Friday 1/22/16: A turrid snail
This week’s Fossil Friday post features the turrid snail Hindsiclava consors (Family Turridae). H. consors would have been found in … Continue
Fossil Friday 10/9/15: Fossils from the Gatún Formation!
For this week’s Fossil Friday I am going to send you off to see what invertebrate paleontologists Jonathan Hendricks and … Continue
Fossil Friday 9/25/15: A whale rib
For this week’s Fossil Friday, we are going to look at a partial rib of a cetacean. This specimen was … Continue
All the Small Things
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on several smaller projects around the lab that have included identifying … Continue
Fossil Friday 2/6/14: A cephalopod
This Fossil Friday we have another invertebrate for you, Aturia. Like last week’s turritellid, Aturia is a mollusc; however, it … Continue