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Fossils of Western New York

Western New York looked very different 380 million years ago during a time period called the Devonian. Discover the rocks and fossils preserved in our backyard and how they tell us about the history of our region. Dr. Holly Schreiber is currently the Director of Education of the Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Reserve in Buffalo, NY. Previously, Dr. Schreiber held the positions of Postdoctoral Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis, the department where she earned her Ph.D. in 2011. Dr. Schreiber’s dissertation, “Investigating the Phylogenetic Relationships and Morphological Variability of the Crura and External Shell of Extant Rhynchonellida (Brachiopoda),” focused on the variability of brachiopod shell shapes and its effect on their evolution. Prior to devoting her life to brachiopods, Dr. Schreiber earned her B.S. (2003) in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Wisconsin and an M.S. (2005) in Geoscience from the University of Iowa. Her thesis work focused on the evolution of Caribbean corals during the Cenozoic.