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**Exciting update!** LACMIP is ringing in the new year with even more fossil insects online! Check out our GBIF dataset for 4,091 freshly digitized specimen records from the Statz Collection (link in bio). Many more to come in 2019... 😊🐜 #invertpaleo… bit.ly/2SeRBZD
One part of our jobs is to find ways to support our hopes and dreams for the collections. Today we submitted a proposal to digitize a selection of Cretaceous fossils from the Western Interior of North America. Here, Erin from Long Beach City College is h… ift.tt/2CE9s8d
Alright #fossilsofLA friends and family, today is #fossilfriday and it’s also my last day working at @NHMLA and the #LACMIP collection 😢 For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Katy, assistant collections manager and face behind this account. I’ll b… ift.tt/2NtljdW
Today’s #fossilfriday is brought to you by #LACMIP collections assistant Shawn Wiedrick, who is currently working on the molecular systematics of recent eastern Pacific ‘Ocinebrina’ species. Lately Shawn has been analyzing a portion of the Pleistocene ‘… ift.tt/2o8fKU0
#LACMIP alum Maria Rodriguez is featured yet again on the @NatlParkService website! Check out her “Meet a Paleontologist” interview to see all the awesome work she’s doing at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area! nps.gov/articles/meeta…
Today we’re saying goodbye (for now) to Chelsie, who has been interning with us this summer through the @occidentalcollege #InternLA program. Chelsie has been helping us digitize our California Paleocene collection as part of a research project focusing … ift.tt/2vWTSyw
It’s #fossilfriday and the professors from the biology department at @PCCLancer are visiting to learn how they can connect their students with our collections. Here they are learning all about how to photograph insect fossils for our @fossilinsectcollabo… ift.tt/2LKHYSe
Happy late-in-the-day #fossilfriday everyone! The @NHMLA conservation team came by our collection today to take a look at our collection of silicified insects, to try and determine if they can remount and rehouse them, and maybe even re-attach the legs o… ift.tt/2JHA72P
Now here is a Pleistocene scaphopod that went through a lot during its lifetime! See all of those little lines on the shell? Each one of those is a repair scar, and represents a time when this poor little mollusk was attacked by a hungry crab looking for… ift.tt/2mcVrUG
Awesome lunchtime lecture today for #trilobitetuesday from @ucriversideofficial professor Dr. Nigel Hughes! He and his students are here looking through our Cambrian collections today, and talked to us about their research on the Cambrian trilobite genus… ift.tt/2ucHeeE
Happy #fossilfriday friends! These little lumps of rock may not look like much, but they’re actually Paleocene brachiopods from here in Southern California! Brachiopods are a group of invertebrates that dominated during the Paleozoic, but went nearly com… ift.tt/2lGFPbw
The theme for today’s post is an invertebrate paleontology #threefer- it’s #cephalopodweek, #jurassicjune, and of course #fossilfriday! So today we thought we’d bring you some awesome Jurassic ammonites. Ammonites are extinct shelled cephalopods that are… ift.tt/2tmtdut
For today’s #trilobitetuesday we’re bringing you a #whopper of a trilobite! Some large species of trilobites could grow up to 30 inches in length, like this #Dalmanites purduei. Some members of this genus could get even larger than the example pictured h… ift.tt/2MG1xcj
It’s everyone’s favorite day... #trilobitetuesday! Meet Cryptolithoides ulrichi (scale bar spatula is a half centimeter). Cryptolithoides was an #Ordovician bottom-dweller who burrowed deep into the mud to find food particles. Check out the fringe around… ift.tt/2y1gGRY
Please join us on this #museummonday in congratulating #LACMIP Collections Assistant Javaria, who graduated from @elcaminoedu this weekend! Javaria will be heading off to @sandiegostateuniversity this fall to continue pursuing her bachelors in Geology, b… ift.tt/2JDgyJI
#fossilfriday take two, this time actually on Friday (clearly it’s been a long week)... Check out this amazing model of a heteromorph ammonite in the @calacademy geology collection! These are used for teaching and they are absolutely spectacular. Heterom… ift.tt/2xYkzas
If your fossil is Miocene in age, will WORMS help you update the name? #digidata @fossilsofLA Katy Estes-Smargiassi
Exploring georeferenced fossil specimens in the Pacific and Caribbean #digidata @fossilsofLA
How’s everyone’s #fossilfriday going? Ours is going great, especially since we came across these Pennsylvanian scaphopods! These Paleozoic scaphopods, Dentalium (Antalis) raymondi, are pretty giant compared to most of their modern counterparts (with some… ift.tt/2JkzvE5
It’s #fossilfriday and we had a fun visit from our friends at the @westernsciencecenter today. Max the Mastadon (and his caretakers Alton and @brittandbone) loved our Ephippiorthoceras, an Ordovician nautilus. These long, straight, shelled cephalopods do… ift.tt/2xejWcj
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