Sentences with phrase «invertebrate paleontology»

«This spectacular new predator, one of the largest and best preserved soft - bodied arthropods from Marble Canyon, joins the ranks of many unusual marine creatures that lived during the Cambrian Explosion, a period of rapid evolutionary change starting about half a billion years ago when most major animal groups first emerged in the fossil record,» said co-author Jean - Bernard Caron, senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the ROM and an associate professor in the Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences at U of T.

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences» invertebrate paleontology collection contains approximately 56,000 + specimens (11,000 + lots).

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Paleontology studies such as this can «establish an ecosystem's long - term past before humans altered it,» says invertebrate paleontologist Sally Walker of the University of Georgia, Athens.