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Dana Ehret and Dr. Ronny Maik Leder are now friends 5 years, 2 months ago
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Dana Ehret posted a new activity comment 5 years, 3 months ago
5 years, 3 months ago5 years, 3 months agoThat’s pretty worn. A scale bar and some locality info would help… Just based on that image, it could be a lower Lemon shark
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Dana Ehret started the topic A New Pennsylvanian Insect from Alabama in the forum New Research for Discussion 5 years, 4 months ago
5 years, 4 months ago5 years, 4 months agoA New species of insect from the Pennsylvanian of Alabama was just described last week. The specimen was originally found by Don Blakely, a volunteer at the Cahaba Living River Retreat, who found the wing in a rock being used to…[Read more]
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Dana Ehret replied to the topic Fossil Specialties + Contacts in the forum What Is It? 5 years, 10 months ago
5 years, 10 months ago5 years, 10 months agoI’m happy to help with sharks and turtles, Alabama or NJ fossils
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Dana Ehret posted an update 5 years, 10 months ago
5 years, 10 months ago5 years, 10 months agoHey Victor,
Question for you, I’ve been in a discussion on the Georgia Fossil Group’s facebook page and it has made me realize that there are a lot of misconceptions by some amateurs about how collections work. Primarily, Thomas Thurman of Georgia knows of three basilosaurid skeletons in the ground and every institution he’s contacted either…[Read more]
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Wayne Thompson and Dana Ehret are now friends 5 years, 10 months ago
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Dana Ehret and Eleanor Gardner are now friends 5 years, 11 months ago
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Dana Ehret and Bruce MacFadden are now friends 5 years, 11 months ago
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Dana Ehret started the topic New species of Cretalamna from Alabama in the forum Open Access Papers 6 years ago
6 years ago6 years agohttps://peerj.com/articles/4229/
While I’m on a roll, I’ll also add another open access paper published earlier this year. In this paper we name a new species of Cretalamna from the Campanian of Alabama. The species, Cretalamna bryanti, was named after famed football coach, Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant and was published on the day of the NCAA National…[Read more]
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Dana Ehret replied to the topic Gentry et al. (2018) A new species of Peritresius Leidy, 1856 from Alabama in the forum Open Access Papers 6 years ago
6 years ago6 years agoIf you would like to learn more about George Martin and his contributions to paleontology in Alabama and Florida, I wrote a spotlight about him for the Fossil Project newsletter in Summer 2017
https://www.myfossil.org/amateur-spotlight-george-martin/
In addition to Peritresius martini, George also has a Paleocene crab from Alabama, Stevea…[Read more]
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Dana Ehret started the topic Gentry et al. (2018) A new species of Peritresius Leidy, 1856 from Alabama in the forum Open Access Papers 6 years ago
6 years ago6 years agohttp://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0195651
UAB graduate student Drew Gentry along with Jim Parham, Jun Ebersole and I just published on a new species of late Cretaceous sea turtle named Peritresius martini. It was named after amateur paleontologist George Martin from Auburn, AL who collected and donated the specimen…[Read more]
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Dana Ehret replied to the topic Open Access Papers Overview in the forum Open Access Papers 6 years ago
6 years ago6 years agoWe just published a new species of sea turtle, Peritresius martini, from the Campanian of Alabama. The species was named for George Martin, an amateur paleontologist from Auburn, AL who donated what is now the holotype to the Alabama Museum of Natural History.
http://researchnews.plos.org/2018/04/18/old-man-of-the-sea-ancient-alabaman-sea-turtle-ancestor/
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Dana Ehret joined the group Special Friends of the Aurora Fossil Museum 6 years ago
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