There’s Mollusk Monday and Worm Wednesday, but no special day of the week for brachiopods, which is kind of too bad. Anyhow, we are happy to share that our Virtual Collection of 3D models of fossil brachiopod shells is now online and may be accessed here.
The domain name for the Neogene Atlas has recently changed. The new web address is neogeneatlas.net (instead of neogeneatlas.org); please update your bookmarks.
The Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life–a free, open access, online “textbook” about prehistoric organisms, as well as basic principles of geology and biology–continues to grow. A new chapter on Systematics–the science of biodiversity–is now online! Written by Ohio University assistant professor Elizabeth Hermsen and Paleontological Research Institution Director of Publications Jonathan Hendricks, this chapter focuses on the nuts-and-bolts of taxonomic …
Specimen of Hesperornis on display at the Yale Peabody Museum. Image Source: http://news.yale.edu/2017/06/19/peabody-digitization-project-facilitates-time-travel-cretaceous-period. Specimen of Hesperornis on display at the Yale Peabody Museum. Image Source: http://news.yale.edu/2017/06/19/peabody-digitization-project-facilitates-time-travel-cretaceous-period. A nice overview of some of the work being done on our Cretaceous World project at the Yale Peabody Museum is highlighted in this recently published article by Mike Cummings: http://news.yale.edu/2017/06/19/peabody-digitization-project-facilitates-time-travel-cretaceous-period
We are excited to share our official logo for the Cretaceous World TCN project! It was designed by Dr. Oscar Sanisidro at the University of Kansas.
Digitization Update The Cretaceous World TCN project is off to a great start. In total, >2700 Western Interior Seaway (WIS) localities have been georeferenced, >113,000 WIS specimens have been databased, and >10,000 WIS specimens have been imaged across all of the TCN partner institutions. Other Activities While still under active development by PI Hendricks (Paleontological Research Institution), the Cretaceous Atlas …
The Cretaceous Atlas of Ancient Life–an outreach component of the NSF-supported Cretaceous World TCN Project–is now online: http://www.cretaceousatlas.org The Cretaceous Atlas will gradually grow over the next several years, providing a new resource to help individuals identify and learn about fossils from the ancient Western Interior Seaway. Have a look at the very first fossil added to the Cretaceous Atlas, …
We are excited to announce that we have begun developing two new major additions for the Digital Atlas of Ancient Life: 1) a Cretaceous Atlas for the Western Interior Seaway and 2) a new “open access” digital textbook on paleontology, which may be accessed by clicking on the “Learn” link at the top of this page. These initiatives will be supported by the …
The lovely vase shell genera Vasum and Hystrivasum have been added to the Neogene Atlas.
Are you attending the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Baltimore Nov. 1-4? If so, make sure to check out the sessions below on all of the awesome fossil specimen digitization and management projects and outreach initiatives going on right now: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 8:00AM-12:00PM in Rm. 318: T97. SPECIMEN-BASED RESEARCH AND THE REALITY OF PALEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCE, SPECIMEN …