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Episode 67: Blue Beach Tetrapods

Episode 67: Blue Beach Tetrapods

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Episode 67: Blue Beach Tetrapods

FromPalaeocast

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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Jul 22, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Blue Beach is a locality in Nova Scotia, Canada that is well known for it's fossils from the Lower Carboniferous. In particular, it is significant for being one of few sites in the world that has fossils from this time period, known as 'Romer's Gap', significant for it's apparent lack of tetrapod fossils, despite the presence of animals like Ichthyostega and Acanthostega before this time. Significant work in recent years has been done on Romer's Gap, including on the tetrapod fossils found at Blue Beach. In this episode, we spoke to University of Calgary Associate Professor Jason Anderson about these tetrapod fossils from Blue Beach, an area he has been working on for many years. Jason and others published a paper in 2015 on some of the early tetrapod finds from Blue Beach.
Released:
Jul 22, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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