#geos

To our knowledge, there are only four studies which report epibionts from Caretta (Frazier et al. 1985, 1991, 1992; Sawyer et al. 1975). Furthermore, research conducted in Georgia can only include turtles from Camden County (Frazier et al. 1985, 1991, 1992), because Sawyer (1975) did not specify the localities from where his samples were taken.

I haven’t Officially Started yet but for my geoscience senior capstone I’m helping one of my professors with his research on fossil bryozoans, so we’re going to go to a museum and look through their collection to find any instances of bryozoans growing on megalodon teeth and a particular fossil snail shell. And then we’re going to take photos of them with an environmental scanning electron microscope and send them to a bryozoan expert who’s also working on the project! And she’s going to help us determine if they’re extinct species or not, and we’re basically trying to figure out whether these are species that grew on the teeth and shells during the Miocene and fossilized, or if these are modern day bryozoan species which grew on already fossilized teeth and shells :)