Caribbean Paleobiology
Friday, September 18, 2009

Prep Work: Update

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Wow! It’s been a while since I posted something. Working with some of the material collected back in August when I went to Puerto Rico to do...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Sirenian diversity in the past

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Its been quiet here for a while as I’ve been busy working on the preparation of two sirenians skull, as well as getting ready for the upcom...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

A day in the field, Tertiary

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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...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

A day in the field: Cretaceous

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Cretaceous sedimentary rocks are found in Puerto Rico, especially in the southwest part of the island where several well-exposed limestone u...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

From land to sea

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Some of the living marine mammals, like cetaceans, sirenians and pinnipeds* are so well adapted to a life in water that it might be difficul...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Field err… lab work

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It’s field season of course, so I’ve been in Puerto Rico for a while now, unfortunately with my car dead, it has been difficult to do things...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Cenozoic Caribbean Crocodylians

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There are only a few naturally-ocurring modern species of crocodylians in the Greater Antilles, namely the endemic Cuban crocodile ( Crocody...
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J. Velez-Juarbe
With a bachelors degree in Geology from University of Puerto Rico and a PhD in Anatomy from Howard U., I am currently Associate Curator of Marine Mammals (living and extinct) at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The main subjects of this blog are Marine Tetrapods of the Neotropics and Eastern Pacific regions and Origins of the Greater Antilles vertebrate fauna. The text in these posts reflect my own opinion and not those of the granting agency or institutions to which I’m affiliated. Follow me on Twitter: @VelezJuarbeJ If you wish to contact me write to: jorgefossilhunter@yahoo.com
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