The Coastal Paleontologist returns

perspectives on marine vertebrate paleontology

Monday, August 31, 2026

Snapshots from Paleocon 2026: a few days with friends and colleagues, fossil whales, and too many mastodons

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A couple of weeks ago Sarah and I spent three days in Hemet, California, attending our first 'PaleoCon' event at the Western Science...
Friday, July 31, 2026

A nursery for giant sharks in the Charleston Embayment: Carcharocles angustidens in the Oligocene Chandler Bridge Formation

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Summer 2018 was spent visiting this locality after every rainstorm to collect as many fossils in situ from the Oligocene Ashley Formation an...
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Robert Boessenecker
California, United States
After living on the east coast for eight years, studying fossil cetaceans from the Oligocene rocks of Charleston, South Carolina, I’ve finally returned to the Pacific coast where I belong. Most of my recent research has focused on the study of toothed mysticetes like Coronodon and early odontocetes (dolphins) including xenorophids (e.g. Inermorostrum, Xenorophus), giant dolphins (Ankylorhiza), and spear-toothed dolphins (Waipatiidae). In June 2024 I will be returning to California and starting as the Colclough Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the San Diego Natural History Museum, where I will be studying Miocene and Pliocene baleen whales – and probably a few walruses as well.
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