Protobranch bivalves are abundant and diverse in the Keasey Formation and include previously unrecognized genera and new species. They preserve novel and rarely-observed shell features including a “bandgrubenzahn” (bd) and escutcheonal perforations (ep). Life habits and functional anatomy distinguish nuculoideans, which lack siphons (A, nuculanids and B, pristigomids) from siphonate nuculanoideans (C,D). Courtesy of Carole Hickman| ucmp.berkeley.edu
Online exhibits : Geologic time scale : Cenozoic Era| ucmp.berkeley.edu
Narimane Chatar, current NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Jack Tseng’s lab, was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship to begin December of this year. The MSCA Postdoc is a competitive award from the European Union and funds up to 3 years of research work. Narimane will spend two years of her fellowship working with Jack at UC Berkeley, followed by a third year in collaborator Borja Figueirido’s lab at the University of Malaga in Spain. Her project is titled...| ucmp.berkeley.edu
UCMP houses the pre-eminent paleobotany collection on the West Coast. The collection is global in scope, but its greatest strengths are in the Cenozoic (with plenty of Paleogene) floras of California, Oregon, and Washington. The collections continue to grow through fieldwork by University of California faculty, staff, and students as well as donations from private individuals and California’s mitigation paleontology community. The museum labs include equipment and facilities for general pre...| ucmp.berkeley.edu
The University has made Cal Day a day for admitted students and their families. UCMP will be tabling on Cal Day, Saturday, April 19, 2025 from 10am-4pm in the STEM Bonanza Tent along with other members of the Berkeley Natural History Museums on the North Lawn of the Valley of Life Sciences building. We’ll be […]| University of California Museum of Paleontology
Diane has been an invaluable member of the UC Museum of Paleontology community for the past thirty years, managing a world-class paleobotanical fossil collection and ensuring its longevity and accessibility for generations to come. And while Diane has many years of service at UC, in the past 3 years she has only ramped up her work. She has taken on leadership roles in three separate and unrelated collections grants and is managing multiple large digitization grants, coupled with mentoring doz...| ucmp.berkeley.edu
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How do we perceive the world around us? In order to understand what surrounds us, we| ucmp.berkeley.edu
From the Big Bang to the formation of the stars, planets and elements, questions about the formation of our solar system, the shaping of planet Earth, and the origin of life remain. Please join us to hear leading UC Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists speak on the origin of the elements, the formation of Solar Systems, how the Earth evolved from a molten protoplanet to its modern ocean-covered form, and the planetary basis of the origin of life on Earth.| ucmp.berkeley.edu
Eric Holt is in costume, saying hello to Cal Day guests. PC Tara Reddinger.UCMP will be tabling at the STEM Bonanza Tent located on the North side of the Valley of Life Sciences Building to welcome prospective students and their families on Cal Day, Saturday, April 13, 2024 from 9am-4pm. We’ll be displaying fossils and have information on student opportunities.| University of California Museum of Paleontology
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