Updated:
19 June 2007
Paleobiology
Collections Tour
Paleobotany
Paleobotany
Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
At
a moment’s notice, Dan Chaney,
Research Assistant of Fossilized Plants,
became our tour guide! Shown here is
a Lower Permian fossil – its red
color is caused by iron that leaked
through the substrate.
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Paleobotany
Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
A
Connifer from a Permian Redbed.
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Paleobotany
Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
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Paleobotany
Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
A
tree trunk impression from one of the
largest plant fossils ever collected
- 3.9 m (13 ft) long and 3.7 m (12 ft)
high, and weighing more than 16 tons.
This giant fossil scale tree dates to
310 million years ago, the Pennsylvanian
Period.
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Paleobotany
Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Kris
Rhodes with a nut from the Paleobotany
Fruit & Nut Collection.
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Paleobotany
Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Mazon
Creek Illinois boasts spectacular fossils
very well preserved in iron nodules.
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Paleobotany
Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
When
scientists split the fragile shale looking
for fossils, they often find mirror
images on each half of their split shale.
Whichever fossil has more of the material
is “the part” and less material,
“the counterpart.” Kris Rhodes
uses parts and counterparts like these
in his research.
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Paleobotany
Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Santiago
Herrera and Rebecca Fischer with a Mazon
Creek fern fossil!
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Paleobotany
Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Spectacularly
preserved, you can see the fine venation
is in this fossilized fern from Mazon
Creek.
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Paleobotany
Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
Addy
Kemp holds a Mason Creek fossilized
fern.
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Paleobotany
Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
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Paleobotany
Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
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Paleobotany
Collections Tour
Monday,
4 June 2007
The
group traveled out to the NMNH parking
lot to see the oversize 310 million
year old fossilized tree being prepared
outside - because it's too large for
the prep lab.
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Photo
captions by Morgan Little
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