NE announces species collected during 2011 Paleo Expedition
Our Mission: "Native Explorers Strives To Recruit, Train, And Educate Native Americans In The Earth Sciences, Natural Sciences, And Biomedical Sciences As Well As Medicine."
Native Exploers collected many fossils in 2011. From the Miocene rock formations, the students collected plant fossils, molluscs (snails and clam shells), fish (gar and sun fish), frog, turtle, bird, lizard, snake, horse (2 different three-toed species), peccary, gomphothere (a tusked, mastodonlike mammal), and rhinoceros.
From the Triassic rock formations, NE students discovered phytosaur and labyrinthodont amphibian fossils. In addition, crocodylian, turtle and fish fossils were collected from the exposed Jurassic rock formations.
Phytosaur