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The location of the state of New Mexico. Paleontology in New Mexico refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of New Mexico. The fossil record of New Mexico is exceptionally complete and spans almost the entire stratigraphic column. [1] More than 3,300 different kinds of fossil organisms have ...
Spencer G. Lucas. Spencer George Lucas is an American paleontologist and stratigrapher, and curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. His main areas of study are late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and early Cenozoic vertebrate fossils, stratigraphy, and continental deposits, particularly in the American Southwest.
Website. nmnaturalhistory.org. The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science is a natural history and science museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico near Old Town Albuquerque. The Museum was founded in 1986. [ 1 ] It operates as a public revenue facility of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
Martin G. Lockley (17 March 1950 – 25 November 2023) was a Welsh palaeontologist. He was educated in the United Kingdom where he obtained degrees (BSc and PhD) and post-doctoral experience in Geology in the 1970s. Since 1980 he had been a professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, (UCD) and was later Professor Emeritus.
James I. Kirkland. James Ian Kirkland (born August 24, 1954) is an American paleontologist and geologist. He has worked with dinosaur remains from the southwest United States of America and Mexico [1][2][3] and has been responsible for discovering new and important genera. He named (or worked with others in naming) Animantarx, [4] Cedarpelta ...
Pages in category "Paleontology in New Mexico" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Paleontology. Ermine Cowles Case (1871 – 1953), invariably known as E.C. Case, was a prominent American paleontologist in the second generation that succeeded Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. A graduate of the University of Kansas, with a PhD from the University of Chicago (1896), [1] Case became a paleontologist of ...
Santa Fe, New Mexico. Named by. Hayden. Year defined. 1869. The Santa Fe Group is a group of geologic formations in New Mexico and Colorado. It contains fossils characteristic of the Oligocene through Pleistocene epochs. The group consists of basin -filling sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Rio Grande rift, and contains important regional ...