Eggs from the Permian age
Associate Professor Thomas Hegna was a co-author of two articles using SUNY ϳԹ's new scanning electron microscope and energy-dispersive spectrometer.
“A new archaeostomatopod from Pennsylvania Wea Shale member, Nebraska” illustrated the elemental composition of a new fossil mantis shrimp showing variation in the fossilization process. It was published in the Nov. 6 issue of American Museum of Natural History.
The article can be found .
“Putative branchiopod and vertebrate eggs from the Remigiusberg Lagerstatte (Pennsylvania-Permian boundary) of the Saar-Nahe Basin, SW Germany” identified minute fossil eggs of Permian age from Germany. It was published in Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie.
The article can be found .
Dr. Hegna, of the Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences, specifically worked on the analysis and interpretation of the crustacean eggs.
The National Science Foundation funded the purchase of the SEM-EDS.
