A to Z Challenge – Page 17 – Penny Higgins – Storyteller • Artist • Scientist

The Breaks local fauna and North American Land Mammal “ages”

Many years ago, I wrote a dissertation. That was the final step toward my ultimate goal of becoming a ‘real’ paleontologist. My research was strictly biostratigraphy: putting rocks and fossils in order by age from oldest to youngest. Specifically, I was looking at mammal fossils from the middle of the Paleocene, about 60 million years ago.Continue reading “The Breaks local fauna and North American Land Mammal “ages””