On the ice in Nunavut, Canada Johnny Issaluk holds a print of swamp of North Carolina.  During the PETM the arctic look like this type of swamp.
In the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida Keys, Jim Zachos of the Univ of California, Santa Cruz, holds a replica of a core sample from the Atlantic Ocean sea floor. The core shows the PETM period.
The John Amos Power Plant shot from the Poca Subdivision on Richard Street.
Near the quarry in the Big Horn Basin where Scott Wing has worked for many years an undescribed leaf fossil from the PETM. Possibly Anacardiaceae, the sumac and poison ivy family. Courtesy of the Washakie Museum, Cheryl Reichelt cheryl.reichlt@washakiemuseum.com Contact Scott Wing wings@si.edu
An early eocene horse still in its matrix with fish around in. About 52 million years old found in Green River, Wyoming by Jim Tinsky.
At the Jim Bridger Power Plant near Rock Springs, Wyoming, smoke from burning coal fills the atmosphere.
End of the Bench, area 67, Phil Gingerich's site near Powell. The red bands are PETM.
Wydok Coal Mine east of Gillette, Wyoming.
At the University of Michigan a jaw of an Allognathosuchus found by Phil Gingerich in the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. This is an early alligator from the PETM.
At the University of Michigan a jaw of an Allognathosuchus found by Phil Gingerich in the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. This is an early alligator from the PETM.
At the University of Michigan a jaw of an Allognathosuchus found by Phil Gingerich in the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. This is an early alligator from the PETM.
At the University of Michigan a jaw of an Allognathosuchus found by Phil Gingerich in the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. This is an early alligator from the PETM.
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