Reynolds Field Station Cretaceous Leaf Fossils on Display at the Zuhl Museum, Las Cruces

 

RFS fossils on display at the Zuhl Museum

Cretaceous leaf fossils from the Reynolds Field Station (RFS) are on display at The Zuhl Museum , located on the New Mexico State University (NMSU) campus in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The fossils are on loan from Jagger Giffing and Gideon Kuykendall, who collected them on a NMSU field trip for the Tectonics and Basin Analysis geology course. The fossils are leaves and root casts from angiosperms (flowering plants), which exploded in diversity in the northern hemisphere during the Cretaceous. Jagger and Gideon set up the museum exhibit that explains the fossils. The Perot Museum of Nature and Science  (PMNS) in Dallas, Texas is conducting active field collection and studies of the great abundance of paleobotanical fossils at RFS.

 

Dr. Dori Contreras and Gideon Kuykendall show off the fossils collected at RFS