Congratulations Mr Dean!

http://www.kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=16855

:shock: "sucher pattern?" I really hope they mean "suture pattern," or else I had better go back to school...

'Sucher'; methinks that's what happens when a news story is dictated down the phone to a reporter unaware of the terminology. A photo of the offending ammonoid would have been nice, oh well.

20" (508mm) is a nice sized shell. :shock:

I wonder just how many fossils get hauled away from construction sites without anyone even realizing what they are? :cry:

Just found this. If there were whales there must have been cephs.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2007-06-29T155651Z_01_N27418089_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHILE-WHALES.xml