Lecture looks at historic hunt for trilobites
Date of Event: February 23, 2012
Posted: February 16, 2012
GRANVILLE, Ohio— A lecture that examines trilobite research, “Understanding the Search for Affinities: the Earliest History of Trilobite Research from Antiquity to the 1820s,” will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23, in room 311 of Denison University’s Olin Hall (100 Sunset Hill Drive). The lecture, by James St. John, a geology lecturer at Ohio State University-Newark, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Erik Klemetti at 740-587-5788 or visit www.denison.edu.
Trilobites are an extinct class of arthropods, which are important, widespread, and common fossils in Paleozoic rocks. This talk will summarize the nature of the earliest trilobite research, starting in antiquity. Trilobite specimens and old/rare trilobite books will be available for examination.
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