Fossil Friday 2/13/15: Fossil Wood
This Fossil Friday we are lucky to be showcasing an Early Miocene fossil wood specimen from the Lirio East locality, … 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
Fossil Friday 1/23/15: A rhinocerotid
The subject of this week’s Fossil Friday is a rhinocerotid (commonly known as rhinos) that has been found in Florida and … Continue
Watch NNB4 Live!
If you would like to watch the presentations being given at NNB4 live, check out the livestream on STRI’s website … Continue
NNB4 Presentations Start Today!
Several of us from PCP PIRE are currently in Panama attending the fourth meeting of the Network for Neotropical Biogeography … Continue
Fossil Friday 12/26/14: A three-toed horse
It’s Fossil Friday again and this time I would like to show you a specimen of a three-toed horse called … Continue
Fossil Friday 12/12/14 : An anthracothere
The specimen for this Fossil Friday is the left lower jaw (dentary) of a juvenile anthracothere Arretotherium meridionale. Anthracotheres were … Continue
Preparing a Fossil Dugong from the Panama Canal
The first project I got started on at FLMNH was preparing a fossil dugong from the Culebra formation of the … Continue
Role Model Visit in Santa Cruz with GABI RET
It’s already Thursday and I am just sitting down to write about the conversations I’ve been having with teachers and … Continue
Wesley von Dassow at GSA
Summer 2014 PCP PIRE intern Wes von Dassow presents this morning on the field course in the Azuero Peninsula in … Continue
Fossil Shrimp of Panama
Adiël Klompmaker explores the taxonomy and population distribution of the mud shrimp Glypturus. These shrimp are commonly found in Miocene … Continue
Google Earth at GSA
The short course on using Google Earth should prove useful for helping to showcase our Panama fossils in geographic context!
Postdoctoral Fellowship is available with PCP-PIRE!
A 2-year postdoctoral fellowship is available starting January 2015! PCP-PIRE is seeking a strong field paleontologist or geologist to join … Continue
Application deadline extended on Spring 2015 Field Internships!
New application deadline: November 15, 2014 Are you interested in a geology and paleontology? How about traveling to Central America … Continue
Plant fossils from the Azuero Peninsula: Dracontomelon
New fossils from Eocene deposits of Panama on the Azuero peninsula (at arrow) are revealing that ~50 Million years ago, when … Continue