Hermsen Lab

Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee, USA Caroline Siegert and I have published a new paper on extinct fossil endocarps from Gray Fossil Site, an early Pliocene sinkhole deposit located in eastern Tennessee, USA.  You may download a free PDF copy of the paper at the following link before March 27, 2020:  https://authors.elsevier.com/ a/1aX9K7uTvVL9- The citation is:  Siegert, C., and E.J. Hermsen. 2020.   Cavilignum pratchettii   gen. et sp. nov., a novel fossil endocarp with open locules from the Neogene Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee, U.S.A.   Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 275 (pages not yet assigned).

Santa Cruz Province, Argentina From January 2-19, I traveled to Patagonia, Argentina with members of the Gandolfo Lab (Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University) to do fieldwork in Santa Cruz and Chubut Provinces. Other members of the trip were affiliated with the Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (MEF, Trelew, Chubut, Argentina) and the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (Melbourne, Australia). The trip focused on two fossil floras, one from the Miocene of Santa Cruz Province and the other from the Paleocene of Chubut Province. The specimens we collected will fuel future research in the years to come.