The Paper Trail
"The Paper Trail" is a series of interviews with researchers who published in the Netherlands Journal of Geosciences. We ask them to tell us a bit about the background to their work, the relevance to science and society and just how it was to write the piece!
The Paper Trail
How to make sense of a new and unknown fossil found in the Winterswijk quarry in the Netherlands?
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Henk Kombrink
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Season 1
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Episode 5
In this episode we talk to Stephan Spiekman about a recent fossil find in the famous Winterswijk quarry in the Netherlands. Stephan is a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London and together with Nicole Klein from the University of Bonn in Germany he managed to pin down what type of species part of a jaw they found must belong to. Stephan also explains how the landscape looked like in Triassic times (almost 250 million years ago), when the area now characterised by agricultural land was a shallow subtropical sea.