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perspectives on marine vertebrate paleontology

Showing posts with label fieldwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fieldwork. Show all posts
Monday, August 13, 2012

New Zealand field work: Paleocene of Wangaloa

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Last week, Ewan invited two other students and I to do some fieldwork on the coast south of Dunedin. W...
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Monday, July 30, 2012

More photos from Purisima Formation field work, 2

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  We were stuck behind these jerks riding three abreast for about 5-6 miles.   Tule Elk! After many years living in southwestern Mon...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

More photos from Purisima Formation field work, 1

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Since I haven't been out in the field much down here in New Zealand during the austral winter, I've decided to occasionally post pho...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

October pinniped excavations

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Dick Hilton and I excavating a pair of fur seal (Thalassoleon) dentaries from the base of the cliff. A famished yearling California Sea Lion...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

New mysticete excavation, part 2

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On day two, we returned to continue the excavation process. We had mostly pedestaled the specimen on the first day, but we had not yet under...
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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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