The Coastal Paleontologist

perspectives on marine vertebrate paleontology

Friday, September 18, 2009

Summer Adventures Part 3: Dolphin excavation

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This story actually begins last winter, on a foul foggy day in Santa Cruz. Actually, the weather was quite nice. Anyway, I had been out pros...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Summer Adventures Part 2: Clastic Dike

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Late during the summer I revisited a classic and bizarre geologic site - the Santa Cruz Mudstone west of Santa Cruz, California. This spot i...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Summer Adventures Part 1: Sea Lion Rescue

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Aside from the random post about Chupacabras, I've been pretty silent the rest of the summer, for a few reasons. First and foremost, I w...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

The chupacabra strikes again...

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Totally off topic, but I saw this this morning and it made me angry: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2009/09/01/roldan.chupacabra.K...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

New skull!

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Hey everyone, Here is probably what will constitute the find of the summer. This is a partial skull. But, I'm not going to say what it i...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Santa Cruz whale excavation

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Well, a lot has certainly happened since I've been at field camp. A couple of big papers have come out, a seawall is being put up, and a...
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Friday, June 26, 2009

Field Camp, Part 4: Rattlesnakes!

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Why's it always have to be snakes? Here are some photos compiled through the trip of some serious snakes. These are all western rattlesn...
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Robert Boessenecker
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
I'm currently the Chief Paleontologist at the Charleston Center for Paleontology. I've been here on the east coast for eight years, studying fossil cetaceans from the Oligocene rocks of Charleston, South Carolina, and some of the other vertebrates. 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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