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    Fossil Collecting Field Study

    Fossil Collecting Field Study

    Presented by Academy of Natural Sciences at Academy of Natural Sciences

    March 19, 2011


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    Join Ned Gilmore, the Academy’s collection manager of Vertebrate Paleontology, on a field study to collect fossils from 70 million years ago. Discover animals and plants that once lived in the primeval swamps and seas of the Philadelphia region. Examine ancient sediments exposed from the diggings of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. Keep what you find! (Scientifically significant specimens may be retained for the ANSP collections.)


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      • Venue Info

        Academy of Natural Sciences

        19th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway
        Philadelphia, PA 19103

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      • Admission Info

        Tickets:

        Members: $35
        Non-members: $40

        Info Phone: 215-299-1060

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        March 19, 2011

        Times:

        10 am-4 pm

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