Zoe T. Kulik
FIELDWORK
Latest Triassic and earliest Jurassic of South Africa, Elliot Formation
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During the summer of 2024, I joined the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of Witwatersrand and the American Museum of Natural History fieldwork to the upper Elliot Formation of South Africa. These outcrops preserve the extinction boundary at the end of the Triassic and host a diversity of sauropodomorph and theropod dinosaurs, crocodilian-line archosaurs, and early Jurassic mammaliaforms. Almost everything that is found is a new species making this a very exciting place to do fieldwork. ​
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Late Triassic of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
​Chinle Formation
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During my PhD, I made annual trips from 2017-2022 with the Sidor Lab to the Petrified Forest to prospect and collect a variety of late Triassic fossils. Most of our work took place in an incredibly productive quarry dominated by shuvosaurids but we also find phytosaur, metoposaur, and dinosaur fossils to contribute to our understanding of Late Triassic ecosystems from the southwestern US.
Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary
Judith River Formation, Hell Creek Formation
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I joined Ray Rogers and Kristi Curry Rogers on fieldwork trips during the summers of 2014 and 2015 to prospect and collect microfossil-rich sediment from horizons just before the K/Pg mass extinction. Together, these tiny fossils tell us about the ecosystem that lived at the feet of dinosaurs.
