After some fieldwork (see previous post ) it was time to do some preparation of the material we collected. We did some preliminary prep work...

Like I mentioned in the previous post , we returned to the Cerro Ballena site. There we looked for fossils that might still be exposed in th...

Things have been pretty busy over the past several days. Between work at the museum in Caldera, fielwork and spending time working on manusc...

So a few days ago,  Nick and I arrived to Chile, where we'll be for the next couple of weeks. The purpose of this trip, is to look at co...

Today, we set out to pop the jacket that we made yesterday afternoon. While the humidity from the night before dried, some of us kept w...

So we continued more or less where we left the previous day. We set out to establish the limits of the bone concentration, getting it re...

After a day in La Purísima we were ready to keep digging at the bonebed we found several days ago. Fernando (on the left) works on some ...

This day we headed to La Purísima, to look at more early Miocene outcrops. Specifically we wanted to relocate the type locality of Dioplothe...

Having almost finished at the locality in the bay we headed inland, to look at additional exposures of the early Miocene Isidro Formation. W...

Almost forgot about this. One of the interesting things that we see when we walk along the shores of the Pacific Ocean in this region is mar...

Today we set out to collect the partial mandibles that were next to the skull that we collected yesterday. We are still not sure which taxon...

Having finally made it to San Juanico late Tuesday night, we were finally settled near our field localities. We are staying at a bay that lo...

So, keeping up with stuff I’ve collected at the Río G locality (for previous entries about this locality go here and here ), I bring you so...

This is the first post of the year and, hopefully, more will follow. Anyways, today I bring you a brief overview of fieldwork that I did ba...

This time our field area is in northern Puerto Rico. We decided to visits a couple of outcrops of the Late Oligocene Lares Limestone. If the...