Here we have an Oreodont skull (circa 4 - 48 million years old)!
Lower jaw and teeth of mastodon, unearthed at Newberg, Oregon.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Oreodont skull & Mastadon jaw
One aspect I love about my job is the opportunity to meet experts from diverse fields of interest who use the museum resources for their research projects. A Portland State University archaeologist was here conducting research yesterday and I took the opportunity to photograph a few artifacts from the Horner natural history collection. -mt
Here we have an Oreodont skull (circa 4 - 48 million years old)!
Lower jaw and teeth of mastodon, unearthed at Newberg, Oregon.
Here we have an Oreodont skull (circa 4 - 48 million years old)!
Lower jaw and teeth of mastodon, unearthed at Newberg, Oregon.
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On display at the museum?!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, no. Part of the reason I enjoyed seeing and photographing these artifacts is that they're outside of our regular art and history (1850-present)parameters. We're always rotating what we have on display and natural history is not currently emphasized. I've been thinking that we need to use social media as an informal way to share the interesting and unusual aspects of our day-to-day museum work.
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