Field Work on the Permo-Triassic Boundary

Here's some photos from our latest field trip – it's an NSF-funded project on the Permo-Triassic boundary with Adam Huttenlocker from the University of Southern California, Ken Angielczyk and Pia Viglietti from the Field Museum in Chicago, Claire Browning from Iziko Museums of South Africa and Roger Smith from the University of the Witwatersrand. We brought several students with us who had a great time playing not just with fossils, but some extant species as well! This is our second field season collecting rock samples for radiometrically dating the Permo-Triassic boundary in South Africa and so far, we are getting great results.