02/19/2025
Ep #83 Diggin' the Beasts of the Badlands
Ray and Dave talk about the amazing fossils and strata found in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, where park ranger Mattison Shreero explains how it all got there and why she absolutely loves her job.
Ep 83 Paleo Nerds with Mattison Shreero
Links
Mattison Shreero
Mattison’s Instagram
Mattison’s published paper on the Tiny Deer - The Santuccimeryx
Geological Society of America
Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon
The Anthropocene
The ICS - International Commission on Stratigraphy
Internships - Scientist in the Parks program
GeoCorps America
Wall Drug South Dakota
National Grasslands
Geology of the Badlands White River Formation
The floor of the Western Interior Seaway - the Pierre Shale
Belemnites - the now extinct straight squid-like shell fossils
The Pierre Shale where exquisite ammonites are found
The Laramide Orogeny: The Rocky Mountains rise up
The slingshot-nosed Brontothere/Titanothere
Difference Between Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla
The Brule Formation
Kul Wicasa Oyate, the Lower Brule Native American tribe
NALMA - The North American Land Mammal Age
The Big Pig Dig
Hell Pig - The Entelodont
Teeny Tiny Deer - the Leptomeryx
Prairie dogs with the plague!
Dinosaur National Monument
The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Music
Fossil Freeway by The Ratfish Wranglers
Taxi by the Amish Robots
Hell Pig Ballad by the Ratfish Wranglers
Hell Pig Metal by the Ratfish Wranglers
Sound Waves by the Ratfish Wranglers
The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship Excerpt from Scheherazade, Valery Gergiev - Kirov Orchestra