Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Students in Paleontology with Associate Professor of Geoscience David Kendrick tour the Carnegie Museum of History with associate curator of vertebrate paleontology Matthew Lamanna '97 (left).

Lamanna has led paleontological expeditions on every continent and helped uncover previously undiscovered dinosaur species. Here, he stands in the Cretaceous Seaway, an exhibition hall that features gentle giants and fierce predators that lived underwater.

Lamanna discusses his work with fossil preparations staff, curating museum collections and examining new acquisitions, including the snout of a Spinosaurus.

Students visit the museum's invertebrate paleontology collection. Kate Clayton '23 holds a large trilobite, an extinct marine arthropod common in the Paleozoic time.

Students examine the rib of an extinct Mastodon.

Students hold a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth.

Students examine Ediacarans. They are very strange and very old. They are probably animals, but not like any group that's around today, Associate Professor of Geoscience David Kendrick says.

Students pose in the Dinosaurs in Their Time exhibit, home to dozens of original fossils from throughout the Mesozoic Era.

During an in-class activity back on campus, students use play-dough to create bivalves. The activity was led by Ali Shaw '22 and Alyssa Sands '22.

Students create bivalve models. Bivalve populations include clams, oysters, scallops, mussels, etc.

Sadie Mapstone '21 and Hannah Koppmann '23 lead an activity on arthropods.

Paleontology meets via Zoom following the shift to a remote learning model due to the Covid-19 outbreak.