vertebrate paleontology

Apr 24, 2015

This Fossil Friday we have a peripheral element of the plastron (ventral surface of the shell) of a kinosternid turtle … Continue

Apr 20, 2015

Last week myself and the other interns took a field trip for two days to dig at the fossil site … Continue

Mar 27, 2015

On this Fossil Friday I would like to present a protoceratid, Paratoceras coatesi. The specimen shown here is a right … Continue

Mar 13, 2015

This Fossil Friday I would like to show you another shark from the Culebra Formation called Hemipristis serra. This specimen … Continue

Mar 10, 2015

It’s been a little more than a week since my last blog, and boy a lot has happened… Last week I … Continue

Mar 7, 2015

The members of PCP PIRE that traveled to Panama for Spring Break have been collaborating with the field interns to … Continue

Mar 4, 2015

This week 15 additional people descended on the Panama Canal – the University of Florida Spring Break crew has arrived. … Continue

Feb 20, 2015

For this week’s Fossil Friday, we have a dentary (mandible) of an amphicyonid from the Cucaracha Formation of Panama. This … Continue

Feb 10, 2015

My name is Ariel Guggino and I’m a PCP-PIRE museum intern from the University of Puerto Rico. I study geology … Continue

Feb 4, 2015

Application Deadline: 5PM EST on March 9, 2015 Are you interested in a geology and paleontology? How about traveling to … Continue

Dec 10, 2014

We would like to welcome the Fall 2014 cohort of PCP-PIRE field interns back to the Florida Museum of Natural … Continue

Nov 17, 2014

The first project I got started on at FLMNH was preparing a fossil dugong from the Culebra formation of the … Continue

Nov 6, 2014

Sean Moran recently traveled to Santa Cruz, CA to work with high school teachers developing lesson plans incorporating paleontology. Read … Continue

Oct 22, 2014

Summer 2014 PCP PIRE intern Wes von Dassow presents this morning on the field course in the Azuero Peninsula in … Continue

Oct 21, 2014

Stop by the poster hall tonight to meet with Victor Perez and hear him explain about his fossil sharks!

Tag: vertebrate paleontology