Daniel M. Fisk Museum of Natural History at Hillsdale College

The Fisk Museum has its first Holotype specimen, a new species of fossil macroalga from the Silurian of northern Michigan! It was discovered by the Curator and named in his honor by Dr. Steve LoDuca, a world expert on fossil marine algae at Eastern Michigan University. The species name is Earltonella swinehartii.

Rare fossil find in Michigan's U.P. named after college professor Doctor Anthony Swinehart at Hillsdale College is behind the discovery of a rare new fossil identified as macroalga - which is similar to seaweed. Now housed ...

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