| Along with three other members of the FarWest Geoscience Foundation, the late paleobotanist Howard Schorn (retired Collections Manger of Fossil Plants at the University California Museum of Paleontology)--at lower right--watches Dr. Diane Erwin (Collections Manager of Fossil Plants at the University California Museum of Paleontology) excavate a fossil leaf specimen in the "chocolate shales," interbedded in the Middle Eocene Auriferous Gravels at the Sailor Flat hydraulic gold mine; all significant fossil specimens went to the archival paleobotanical collections at the University California Museum of Paleontology. |