Faculty: Ralph Stearley
Research interests
- paleontology
- biogeography
- history of geology
- history of evolutionary thought
- past and present research includes
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studies of rock-boring marine invertebrates in the intertidal zone of the Gulf of California in Sonora, Mexico;
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studies of Neogene fossil fishes from western North America.
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anatomy and systematics of salmonid fishes;
-analysis of fish remains from archaeological sites in New Mexico and west Michigan;
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and assisting in developing a computerized database of Pleistocene mammalian fossil sites for North America
- directed the excavation of the Ada Bible Church Mastodon in Cascade, Michigan
