Click on the images below
for the animated slide shows
Click on
the image for the animated slide show: a series of four frames
(3 seconds per frame) depicting all four sides of a Western Camel
(Camelops hesternus) toe bone.
Click on
the image for the animated slide show: a series of three frames
(five seconds per frame) depicting three different views of an
astragalus (ankle bone) from a Large-headed llama (Hemiauchenia
macrocephala).
Click on
the image for the animated slide show: a series of four frames
(five seconds per frame) depicting four additional views of the
same astragalus from a Large-headed llama shown in the image
above.
Click on
the image for the animated slide show: a series of seven frames
(lettered A through G--five seconds per frame) depicting an actual
paleontological excavation of a camel metapodial (one of the
foot bones) in the Upper Pleistocene Manix Formation.
Click on
the image for the animated slide show: a series of three frames
(five seconds per frame) depicting scenic on-site views in the
vicinity of Bassett Point, overlooking the area where the Upper
Pleistocene Manix Formation is exposed.
Click on
the image for the animated slide show: a series of four frames
(five seconds per frame) depicting four different types of fossil
specimens recovered from the Upper Pleistocene Manix Formation:
fresh water gastropods Planorbella sp.); fish vertebrae
from the Tui Mojave Chub; a bird bone (distal end of a humerus
from a cormorant); and a second species of fresh water gastropod
(Physa sp.)
