Paleontology
- McAbee Fossil Beds Re-Open To The Public
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The McAbee fossil beds are known for their incredible abundance, diversity and quality of fossils including lovely plant, insect and fish species that lived in an old lake bed setting 52 million years ago. It is one of the best local sites in the province ...
Article - Heidi Henderson - Jul 28 2019 - 10:53am
- Lower Devonian Armored Agnatha
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An armored agnatha jawless bony fish, Victoraspis longicornualis, from Lower Devonian deposits of Podolia, Ukraine. Victoraspis longicornualis was named by Anders Carlsson and Henning Bloom back in 2008. The new osteostracan genus and species was describ ...
Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Jul 21 2019 - 11:17pm
- Sexual Dimorphism: Pliensbachian Apoderoceras
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This stunning specimen with her regal ridges (and small anomaly) is an Apoderoceras ammonite, an extinct genus of cephalopod and active predatory mollusk belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea. ...
Article - Heidi Henderson - Jul 22 2019 - 1:36am
- Lower Sinemurian Arnioceras Fossil Beds
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These ammonites are from the Arnioceras beds near Last Creek, British Columbia. The fossils found here are from the Lower Jurassic, Lower Sinemurian, Little Paradise Member of the Last Creek formation. This site is part of the research area for Dr. Howard ...
Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Jul 24 2019 - 4:45pm
- Baleen Whale Borealodon: A New Stem Mysticete Helps To Unravel The Mysteries Of Whale-Fall Communities
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Article - Heidi Henderson - Jul 26 2019 - 12:47am
- Cenomanian-Turonian Impact On Marine Reptiles
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During the early Triassic period, ichthyosaurs evolved from a group of unidentified land reptiles that returned to the sea. They were particularly abundant in the later Triassic and early Jurassic periods before being replaced as premier aquatic predator ...
Article - Heidi Henderson - Jul 26 2019 - 1:33am
- Middle Ordovician Trilobite: Hypodicranotus striatulus
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Take a gander at this unusual trilobite, Hypodicranotus striatulus (Walcott, 1875), with his gloriously bulbous head shield. ...
Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Jul 26 2019 - 11:13pm
- Tetralophodon Of North Africa
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Quintus Sertorius, a Roman statesman come general, grew up in Umbria, the green heart of what is now central Italy. Born into a world at war just two years before the Romans sacked Corinth to bring Greece under Roman rule, Quintus lived much of his life a ...
Article - Heidi Henderson - Jul 29 2019 - 2:36am
- Rhinoceras Fossil Preserved In Pillow Basalt
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The Miocene pillow basalts from the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area of central Washington hold an unlikely fossil mold of a small rhinoceros, preserved by sheer chance as it's bloated carcass sunk to the bottom of a shallow pool or lake just ...
Article - Heidi Henderson - Jul 28 2019 - 12:45pm
- Nelumbo: Thermoregulating In The Eocene
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This fossil specimen of the fruit of the lotus, Nelumbo, was found by Green River Stone (GRS) in early Eocene outcrops of the Fossil Lake Member of the Green River Formation. The awesome possums from GRS are based out of North Logan, Utah, USA and have un ...
Article - Heidi Henderson - Aug 11 2019 - 1:33pm
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