paleonet Re: SF Airport fossils

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For the first time I saw the extensive San Francisco fossil exhibit in the SF airport, put up by the California Academy of Science.  Lets see:  Baculites are all called belemnites, and all the ammonites (with cool tentacles) are posed upside down, in absolutely impossible orientations - body chamber on top, phragmocone below. Even the heteromorphs (many that I actually collected in the 1980s) are posed for an anti-gravity world.

This was a chance to show something positive about paleontology.  What a mess. I did not have the heart to look at the rest of the exhibit after seeing many mis-identifications.

Is this our future - we cannot correctly identify fossils for the public to even higher taxa?


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