The Missing Notebooks That Solved a 25-Year-Old Paleontology Mystery
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The Missing Notebooks That Solved a 25-Year-Old Paleontology Mystery
Field notebooks from the late Richard Köhler allowed researchers to finally catalog a remarkable fossil tarpon from Aotearoa New Zealand. Recently disclosed notebooks from a late paleontologist supplied the missing details researchers needed to complete their study of a “remarkable” fossil found nearly 30 years ago. Dr. Richard Köhler discovered the fossil fish in 1999 [...]
A 55-million-year-old tarpon fossil was recently cataloged by researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand, thanks to field notebooks of the late paleontologist Richard Köhler. The discovery, made in 1999 on Pitt Island, allowed the conclusion of a study that had been ongoing for almost 30 years. Discovery of the fossil on Pitt Island The fossil was found by Richard Köhler during an expedition to Pitt Island, located in the Chatham arch…
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