Information about the crinoid Elegantocrinus hemisphericus, the Elegant Sea-lily
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Most Recent Lecture
Back to the Present, and the Future
Friday, April 26th, 13:25 - 02:15 PM, GY 447
The pattern of glacial-interglacial cycles; Oxygen isotope proxies for climate;
Regional differences in paleoenvironmental change; Late Quaternary extinction and the role of humans; Current changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature; Comparison with past; Certainties and uncertainties from a geological and paleontological perspective.
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Indiana Fossils
Paleosauropus footprints
Footprints of an ancient tetrapod (Paleosauropus) from the Mississippian Tar Springs Formation at Crane Naval Center, Indiana. Cast of prints described by Colbert and Schaeffer (1947).
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Technical terms
taxon
a named group of organisms. A taxon can be a species, a genus, an order, a phylum, or any other level of group.
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Hoosier paleontologists  Jesse James Galloway Galloway was a Hoosier paleontologist educated at Indiana University and is noted for having received the first PhD in Geology awarded there in 1913. Galloway studied with E.R. Cumings, first on the Indiana Ordovician sections of the Cincinnati Arch, notably the section exposed in the railway cutting at Tanners Creek, and later on atrata from the rest of the state. Galloway was a pioneer in stratigraphic and industrial applications of micropaleontology and taught the first courses in micropaleontology and petroleum geology at IU. See more...
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Dr. P. David Polly
Department of Geological Sciences
Indiana University
1001 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
pdpolly@indiana.edu
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