Geology 4474/5474
Vertebrate Paleontology
Jaelyn J. Eberle
Curator of Paleontology, CU Museum
Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences
Bruce Curtis Building/MCOL
265 UCB
Boulder, CO  80309
303-492-5211


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Eocene-aged exposures of the Eureka Sound Group on Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada Vertebrate paleontologist prospecting for Eocene fossil vertebrates in the Canadian high Arctic Jaw of a dog-sized mammal named Periptychus, that lived in North America during the first few geologic "minutes" after dinosaur extinction at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary
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Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic Artist Cliff Morrow's interpretation of a warm temperate high Arctic some 55 million years ago