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Fossil marine mollusks from California's Central Valley

Seth Finnegan - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

For tens of millions of years large parts of California’s Central Valley were flooded by the ocean, creating an inland sea with a unique ecosystem including now-extinct species of clams, snails, sand dollars, corals, and other groups familiar from modern California beaches. Some of the species that lived in...

 Biological & Health Sciences

The effect of the rise of the Isthmus of Panama on body sizes and trophic structure of marine gastropods

Seth Finnegan - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The formation of the Isthmus of Panama separated the Caribbean Sea from the Pacific Ocean, and the marine ecosystems on either side of the isthmus have diverged substantially over the last several million years as a result of this split. Compared to the strong coastal upwelling zones present in the...

 Biological & Health Sciences

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