Stephen Chester
@purgatoriidae.bsky.social
Paleontologist at Brooklyn College, The Graduate Center, CUNY, and NYCEP
Curatorial Affiliate / Research Associate at AMNH, DMNS, FLMNH, and YPM
https://www.stephenchesterpaleontology.com/
Curatorial Affiliate / Research Associate at AMNH, DMNS, FLMNH, and YPM
https://www.stephenchesterpaleontology.com/
We had a great time at commencement at Lincoln Center last night! Congratulations to Dr. Jordan Crowell and to all our 2025 CUNY Graduate Center graduates!
June 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We had a great time at commencement at Lincoln Center last night! Congratulations to Dr. Jordan Crowell and to all our 2025 CUNY Graduate Center graduates!
Yesterday's senior seminar presentations were excellent!Congratulations to all our graduating seniors!
May 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Yesterday's senior seminar presentations were excellent!Congratulations to all our graduating seniors!
Congratulations to Nidhi Mahadevan! She received first place in STEM at the 2025 Macaulay Honors College Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards ceremony last week for her work on Purgatorius lower molars using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics. Well done, Nidhi!
May 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Congratulations to Nidhi Mahadevan! She received first place in STEM at the 2025 Macaulay Honors College Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards ceremony last week for her work on Purgatorius lower molars using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics. Well done, Nidhi!
Congratulations to Jordan Crowell @crowelljw.bsky.social on a successful doctoral dissertation defense at the AMNH yesterday!!! A special thank you goes to Eric Delson, Chris Gilbert, and John Wible for serving on his committee!
April 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Congratulations to Jordan Crowell @crowelljw.bsky.social on a successful doctoral dissertation defense at the AMNH yesterday!!! A special thank you goes to Eric Delson, Chris Gilbert, and John Wible for serving on his committee!
Mixodectes (foreground) was about three pounds and had an omnivorous diet that included leaves. It appears to have occupied a unique ecological niche in trees shared with smaller plesiadapiforms like Torrejonia wilsoni (background) 62 million years ago. Amazing illustration by Andrey Atuchin!
March 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Mixodectes (foreground) was about three pounds and had an omnivorous diet that included leaves. It appears to have occupied a unique ecological niche in trees shared with smaller plesiadapiforms like Torrejonia wilsoni (background) 62 million years ago. Amazing illustration by Andrey Atuchin!
Happy Fossil Friday! I was happy to see the admittedly ugly but cool ceratopsian horn I picked up 13 centimeters below the pollen-defined K-Pg boundary many moons ago is now on permanent display at the Yale Peabody Museum!
February 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Happy Fossil Friday! I was happy to see the admittedly ugly but cool ceratopsian horn I picked up 13 centimeters below the pollen-defined K-Pg boundary many moons ago is now on permanent display at the Yale Peabody Museum!
I’m back to my old stomping grounds with Tyler Lyson and team at the Yale Peabody Museum today! I first met Tyler in Elisabeth Vrba’s Paleontology and Evolutionary Theory course in 2006, and we've been collaborating ever since…
February 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I’m back to my old stomping grounds with Tyler Lyson and team at the Yale Peabody Museum today! I first met Tyler in Elisabeth Vrba’s Paleontology and Evolutionary Theory course in 2006, and we've been collaborating ever since…
Hi, I’m Stephen and I study how primates and other mammals evolved following the extinction of the dinosaurs. I run the Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory (“MEML”) at Brooklyn College and look forward to sharing our discoveries with you!
February 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Hi, I’m Stephen and I study how primates and other mammals evolved following the extinction of the dinosaurs. I run the Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory (“MEML”) at Brooklyn College and look forward to sharing our discoveries with you!