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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Maiacetus Transitional Whale Fossil


This image is of a Maiacetus inuus transitional whale fossil cast on display at Mace Brown Museum of Natural History (August 2017). It dates to the Eocene Epoch (about 48 million years ago), Paleogene Period. The fossil was found at Habib Rahi Formation, Kunvit, Balochistan Province, Pakistan.

The Mace Brown Museum of Natural History is located at the College of Charleston, 202 Calhoun Street, 2nd Floor, Charleston, South Carolina 29424.

Learn more at their blog: http://blogs.cofc.edu/macebrownmuseum/