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Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory: Student Field Opportunities

Graduate students and undergraduates are integral to faculty research field programs. One such program is now being carried out in Triassic and Jurassic sediments of the Colorado Plateau, where graduate students and undergraduates help to discover and excavate bones of early dinosaurs, the oldest turtles in North America, ancient amphibians, and other important research specimens.

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Mary Stweart Miller (MA '97) looks for the tiny fossils that were the subject of her Masters thesis, at Terlingua Micro 1

Mary Stewart Miller (MA '97) looks for the tiny fossils (like the vertebra shown in the photo below) that were the subject of her Masters thesis, at Terlingua Micro 1, a Late Cretaceous microvertebrate locality in the Big Bend region.
Tiny vertebra, smaller than a fingernail
 
 
 


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