Updated:
21 June 2007
Paleobiology
Collections Tour
Vertebrate Paleontology
Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Robert
Purdy, guide of the Paleobotany tour,
introduces students to the fossil vertebrate
collections and a skeleton of Carboniferous
shark.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Dunkleosteus, was a massive Devonian
Era predatory fish. An adult would have
weighed as much as 4 tons, at 30 feet
long!
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Part
of the lower jaw of a cartilaginous
fish known as a Helicoprion,
dating to the Permian, over 250 million
years ago.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Lynn Copes with the skull of a Triceratops
elatus Marsh, a Late Cretaceous
dinosaur.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Shark’s
tooth from an extinct giant-toothed
white shark from Aurora, NC.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Paleobiology collection consists of
over 43 million specimens
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
This
skin impression represents the middle
of the tail of a Trachodon, a
duck-billed Cretaceous dinosaur.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Robert
Purdy is holding a painted cast of a
saber-toothed tiger skull.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Mammoth
remains from the permafrost of Siberia.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Siberian
mammoth tooth.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Soft
tissue is not normally preserved in
the fossil record, but an Arizona cave
created an environment that allowed
for the conservation of mammoth flesh.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
This
specimen of woolly mammoth fur was freeze
dried in the arctic tundra.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Ground
sloth Dung Samples from Rampart Cave,
Arizona
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
The
excellent preservation of this ground
sloth dung can be studied for pollen
and vegetation.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Robert
Purdy is holding the skull of the earliest
fossil horse from North America.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
The
fossil horse in North America, dating
to the Ice Age.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Laura
Lagomarsino measures herself against
a cast of the Apatosaurus femur.
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Vertebrate
Paleontology Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
From
Left Back Row: (Robert Purdy, Elis,
Laura, Addy, Cecily)From Left Front
Row: (Emma, Io, Ben)
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Photo
captions by Morgan Little
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