Tag: Smithsonian Museum Of Natural History
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The story of Charlotte Hill, a Florissant homesteader who collected ‘staggering’ amount of fossil specimens
Numerous fossils collected by Charlotte Hill in Florissant are preserved in the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History, and at Harvard and Yale universities.
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The story of Charlotte Hill, a Colorado homesteader who collected ‘staggering’ amount of fossil specimens
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Shuffling through specimens of shale pressed with prehistoric organisms, paleontologist Herbert Meyer kept coming across a familiar name. It’s 2009, and Meyer had just completed a database for the petrified pieces found at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. In documenting these fossils, dating back…
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The story of Charlotte Hill, a Colorado homesteader who collected ‘staggering’ amount of fossil specimens
Numerous fossils collected by Charlotte Hill in Florissant are preserved in the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History, and at Harvard and Yale universities.