Saturday

What is this?

4 January 2009. IVPP, Beijing, China.

As I continue to work on fossils of the Tibetan Plateau, specimens collected from previous field seasons are slowly coming out of the basement storage into the bright lights of the research lab.

I was impressed by the intricate patterns shown on this specimen:


I have intentionally left out the scale bar; would you care to guess what this might be a photo of?

Jack