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Edward Oscar Ulrich (1 February 1857, in Covington, Kentucky – 22 February 1944, in Washington, D.C.) was an invertebrate paleontologist specializing in the study of Paleozoic fossils. Biography [ edit ]
The museum opened a new gallery in January 2003 to feature petrified wood. [9] Rudy W. Tschernich was named curator in June 2003, replacing Sharleen Harvey. [ 10 ] In 2004 the Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory at Portland State University loaned the museum 52 meteorites in an exhibit funded by NASA .
The museum opened on December 7, 1974 in McKnight Art Center, where it is still located today. [2] The building was designed by architect Charles F. McAfee. [3]It is best known for the large Venetian glass and marble mosaic by Joan Miró found on the facade of the building, titled Personnages Oiseaux, a 28-by-52-foot (8.5 by 15.8 m) mural on 80 panels. [4]
The earliest definitive works of "proto-paleoart" that unambiguously depict the life appearance of fossil animals come from fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe. One such depiction is Ulrich Vogelsang's statue of a Lindwurm in Klagenfurt, Austria that dates to 1590.
Beyond the show cave, the fossil gallery continues until it meets the main stream. The water can be followed upstream through passages under Trow Gill , to where it emerges from a sump at Terminal Lake which has been connected by divers to Gaping Gill, and followed downstream into Lake Pluto which has been connected by divers to Beck Head ...
This list of ichthyosauromorph type specimens is a list of fossils serving as the official standard-bearers for inclusion in the species and genera of the reptile clade Ichthyosauromorpha (Hupehsuchia included).
This genus is known in the fossil records of the Carboniferous period of United States (age range: from 345.3 to 342.8 million years ago). [2] References
Burgessochaeta is an extinct genus of polychaete annelids from the Middle Cambrian.Its fossils have been found in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada.A total of 189 specimens of Burgessochaeta are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.36% of the community. [1]