28 September 2016

Virginia Museum of Natural History specimens in GIGAmacro view

Posted by Callan Bentley

One of the small sub-projects of my 2015-2017 Chancellor’s Commonwealth Professorship is to create some GIGAmacro images of cool fossil specimens from the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville. Curator of paleontology Alex Hastings was good enough to loan us a few specimens to image, and hopefully there will soon be more where they came from. Here are three examples: a fossil plant, and two fossil vertebrates:

Strobilus cone (Wise County, VA):
Link 2.8 Gpx GigaPan by Callan Bentley

Coelocanth tail from Solite Quarry, Dan River Basin, VA:
Link 1.6 Gpx GigaPan by Callan Bentley

Tanytrachelos (reptile) from Solite Quarry, Dan River Basin, VA:
Link 0.7 Gpx GigaPan by Callan Bentley

Here is a link to the whole collection (7 and counting).