Rex Buchanan Fossil Field Trip: 2015
Rex Buchanan (interm director of Kansas Geological Survey) and Daphne Fautin (professor and senior curator of invertebrate zoology) take students from the Biology 540 class on an annual field trip to dig and look for fossils. In particular, the students were looking for paleontological invertebrate specimens that existed in Kansas from about 300 million years ago (Pennsylvanian period of geologic history), when the area of Kansas was a shallow sea. Most specimens found were shelled animals, sea animal and coral.
Rex Buchanan Fossil Field Trip: 2015
Rex Buchanan (interm director of Kansas Geological Survey) and Daphne Fautin (professor and senior curator of invertebrate zoology) take students from the Biology 540 class on an annual field trip to dig and look for fossils. In particular, the students were looking for paleontological invertebrate specimens that existed in Kansas from about 300 million years ago (Pennsylvanian period of geologic history), when the area of Kansas was a shallow sea. Most specimens found were shelled animals, sea animal and coral.