The Cornets 1964 to 1976


 

   

Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ 1963-1965; Expo 1967 Montreal, Canada.

 

   

Small Pliocene Mammal Bone Extraction from Niobrara Formation, 1968.

Ainsworth, Nebraska, rental house where paleontology crew lived and worked for Dr. Claude Hibbard (Michigan University) in 1968.

Bruce and Bob returned to NW Nebraska and the Chadron Fm to collect fossils for Yale University in 1969.

 

The discovery of Ictops eroding out of the Chadron clays (Oligocene) in NW Nebraska in July 1968.

 

Cornet family (Elizabeth, Ginny, Andrea, and Step Cornet) visiting Dr. H.N. Andrews and Libby at their home, and then attending Harvard Forest Retreat in Massachusetts, 1973.

 

Dr. Henry N. Andrews, Dr. Elso Barghoorn, William Crepet, Bruce Cornet, and William Beck

 

Harvard Forest gathering 1973, James Walker, and Sid Ash in Houston.

Early Cretaceous and Late Triassic Angiosperm Pollen Sectioned by Dr. James Walker on Display at HV.

Seeds of Sanmiguelia lewisii (Nemecekigone fabaforma) named after Anthony Nemececk from Czechoslovakia, a Horticulturalist who lived with Cornet family after WWII. Gone means seed; fabaforma means bean. He died in 1980.

  

First known post-Triassic occurrence of the palm-like plant fossil Sanmiguelia Brown, 2014, UGA Publication 43.

Sidney Ash, Andrew Milner, David Sharrow, and David Alan Tarailo

 

Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265550757_First_known_post-Triassic_occurrence_of_the_palm-like_plant_fossil_Sanmiguelia_Brown.

 

Stem Angiosperm: Axelrodia (Sanmiguelia) carpel on left, flower with petals in middle, and bean-shaped seed on right (with one large and one small seed-leaf or cotyledon). Called by Brown (1956) a Triassic Palm.

Axelrodia and Synangispadixis, Dioecius female and male plant, and leaves.

Neither Monocot nor Dicot, but one and a half-cot, combining dicot-like stems with wood and monocot-type leaves.

Elissa restored, Houston in Galveston Bay, Texas.

Zaberers Inn, South NJ, 5 June 1976 (Bruce, Courtney, Ginny, Walter, Step, and Andrea).

Phi Kappa Phi Honor 1971, UCONN, and Ginny Skoll at Graduation 1972.

 

Camel skull found in Northern Nebraska quarry in 1968.

Daphaenocyon dodgei eroding out of Chadron clay, and Sabertooth Cat found in same Chadron clays by Cornet.

 

 

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