Paleontology

Paleontology is packed with mysteries about living things such as plants and animals that lived thousands, millions, and billions of years before the first modern humans. To solve these mysteries, paleontologists use fossils. Fossils are the remains or traces of ancient life that are usually buried in rocks. Examples include bones, teeth, shells, leaf impressions, nests, and footprints. This evidence reveals what our planet was like long ago. Fossils also show how animals changed over time and how they are related to one another.

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Welcome to Field Adventures in Paleontology! Let me take you on a personal tour of some of the digs I′ve gone on in recent years, both scientific excavations and personal collecting trips, and show you some of the fossils that are found there.

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The FLMNH vertebrate fossil collections feature rich samples of all classes, mainly from the Cenozoic Era. More than 90% of the collections come from about 1000 marine and non-marine sites in Florida; other contributing regions are the Caribbean Basin and the South American Andes. Included are about 400,000 specimens, of which more than 235,000 are catalogued and 220,000 are currently on a searchable computer database. Holotypes number about 200 specimens. The FLMNH vertebrate fossil collections include the former Florida Geological Survey Collection and the UF Department of Zoology Fossil Bird Collection (assembled by the late Professor Pierce Brodkorb). Each of these collections is maintained in a separate catalog, under the acronyms UF/FGS and UF/PB, respectively. The FLMNH collections provide the most complete basis available for study of Cenozoic vertebrate paleontology in the southeastern United States and the Caribbean Basin. Biogeographically these collections record critical episodes in the history of ancient Florida over the past 50 million years.

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Triebold Paleontology, Inc. provides cast skeletons for sale or to rent, and have two traveling exhibitions available for booking. Whether your institution is looking for a previously undescribed species or if you are a collector interested in adding a superior specimen, we can assist you.

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Fossil News - Journal of Avocational Paleontology is a monthly magazine published specifically with the fossil enthusiast or avocational paleontologist in mind. A wide variety of articles is presented, most of them written by avocational paleontologists, on subjects ranging from field experiences to fossils of a given type or region to paleoart to evolutionary theory. Whether you are an armchair paleontologist or an experienced field collector, we have something to offer you.

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The mission of the Section of Vertebrate Paleontology at Carnegie Museum of Natural History is to expand the scientific understanding of fossil vertebrates through original research, to collect and preserve vertebrate fossils through field exploration and curation of our fossil collection, and to participate in science education through museum exhibitions, public education, and scientific lectures.

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Are you a paleontologist, fossil hunter, dinosaur enthusiast, paleoanthropologist., science buff, ect? Perhaps you are in the fossil or dinosaur business in some way? If so, this domain represents a wonderful opportunity for you. Turn it into the world′s leading website for all paleontological studies, or make it the number one fossil site in the world! Being a one word, top level, .COM website, this domain does it′s own advertising.

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