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January 13, 2011

Photo Archives Geology Gallery

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  • Elmer Riggs, the first curator of Fossil Mammals (wearing cap) and field laboratory assistant Harold W. Menke preparing Grand Junction Colorado fossils including the Brachiosaurus femur still in plaster jacket at left. Paleontology Laboratory, Field Columbian Museum.Credit Information:Neg. # CSGEO3251cPhotographer: unknown

    Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Unidentified Expedition member lying next to Brachiosaurus altithorax humerus. 1900.

    Photographer(s): Elmer Riggs (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Benld Meteorite. Ed McCain near the car that was hit by the meteorite. 1938.Credit Information: Neg. # GEO79617Photographer unknown

    Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Late Ordovician Life diorama 390 million years ago models of: seaweed, coral, brachiopod, clam, snail, cephalopod and trilobite.

    Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Middle Cambrian Life diorama, 500 million years ago. Shown are models of: seaweed, sponges, sea cucumbers, brachiopods, worm, trilobites and crustaceans. Fine grained shale bed from British Columbia.

    Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Mastodon americanus, Kerr skeleton.Credit Information: Neg. # GEO82370Photographer unknown

    Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Eugene Richardson, Curator of Paleontology and Tibor Perenyi, scientific illustrator, creating a model of the Tully Monster, Tullimonstrum gregarium, for exhibitCredit Information:Neg. # GEO82825Photographer: unknown

    Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Meteorite slice.

    Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Media for Mazon Creek Fossil Invertebrates

    Photographer(s): Unspecified (c) (c) Unspecified

  • Albertosaurus libratus fossil skeleton.Credit Information: Neg. # GEO85827cPhotographer unknown

    Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Albertosaurus, black background, Albertosaurus libratus. Size: 27 ft (8.5m) long, 2.5 tons (2,500kg). Late Cretaceous, 75-85 million years ago.

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Soft-shelled turtle. Apalone sp. (with Diplomystus dentatus, Pareodus testis, and Knightia eocaena). Early Eocene (50 million years ago) Fossil Lake, Wyoming.Credit Information:Neg. # GEO85891cPhotographer: unknown

    Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Fossil of a fish eating a fish: Mioplosus labrocoides swallowing a knightia eocaena.

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Skeleton of Columbian Mammoth in Teeth Tusks and Tar Pits exhibit. Charles Knight La Brea Tar Pools painting in background.

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Sue, Tyrannosaurus rex, five foot long, 2000 pound skull.

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Sue, T. rex dinosaur skull, profile, jaws open, 5 feet long.

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • External view, 3/4 of Sue, T. rex skull. CT scan made at Boeing Corporation, California. Credit Information: Neg. # GEO86195_3cCT Scan by Chris Brochu

    Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) The Field Museum

  • Opal Cabochon brooch with carved face of Sun God, gold mounting.

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Lepidopteris ottonis (Seed Fern). East Greenland Expedition, 2002. Astartekloft, Hess 89, Bed 4.

    Photographer(s): Mark Widhalm (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Sue, T. rex, completed mount of fossil skeleton before unveiling, behind the white curtain / box.

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) The Field Museum

  • Sue, T. rex, completed mount of fossil skeleton before unveiling, behind the white curtain / box, emphasis on skull.

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Gorgosaurus libratus, Lambe fossil skeleton in Stanley Field Hall.

    Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Sue, T. rex, fossil skeleton with white background.

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Sue T. rex reconstructed cast of skull.

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Topazes (smoky topaz), 3 gems shown.

    Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Chalmers Topaz. Flawless faceted white oval with blue cast.

    Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Dimetrodon.

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Stenopterygius quardiscissus (Quenstedt) (or quadricissus), fossil skeleton of a fish-shaped ichthyosaur with epidermis outline preserved.

    Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Tiffany window, mermaid and fish. Viewable in the Granger Hall of Gems on the Museum's upper level.

    Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

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Elmer Riggs, the first curator of Fossil Mammals (wearing cap) and field laboratory assistant Harold W. Menke preparing Grand Junction Colorado fossils including the Brachiosaurus femur still in plaster jacket at left. Paleontology Laboratory, Field Columbian Museum.Credit Information:Neg. # CSGEO3251cPhotographer: unknown

Photographer(s):Admin(c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History