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National Fossil Day website features research by UCMP and partners

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The UCMP partnership with Point Reyes National Seashore and the National Park Service continues to thrive and fossil discoveries made as a result of this partnership are highlighted in a previous post. Lillian Pearson, who works part-time with Museum Scientist Erica Clites cataloging specimens from the Point Reyes National Seashore, is the lead author on an article posted in honor of National Fossil Day (October 14, 2015) describing Cenozoic life and landscape features.

National Fossil Day article summarizes the research here.

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Robert Boessenecker (College of Charleston), Lillian Kennedy Pearson (GeoCorps Intern at Point Reyes National Seashore), Sarah Boessenecker, and Erica Clites (University of California, Musuem of Paleontology), are excavating the partial skeleton of an extinct porpoise. The skeleton was excavated from the Purisima Formation on Drakes Beach and includes a nearly complete skull, ribs, several vertebrae, and a humerus. Photo by Kathleen Zoehfeld.

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