Paleo Lab

The Paleo Lab is a unique working laboratory where visitors are encouraged to interact with and ask questions of a paleontologist or lab intern while seeing first-hand how fossils are properly prepared, catalogued, and studied. Several “touch specimens,” real fossils that may be handled by visitors, are available.

Paleo Lab paleontologists provide identifications of personal fossil finds by appointment. Winter 2012 appointments available starting January 23. Please send appointment requests via email to Pamela R. Owen at p.owen@austin.utexas.edu.

 

Current Major Projects:

• Preparation of 220 million year old (Late Triassic) amphibian and reptile bones from Apache County, Arizona. 
• Picking and sorting remains of a 160–113 thousand year old (middle-late Pleistocene) cave fauna from Cathedral Cave, White Pine County, Nevada.