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9/15/03

FOSSIL GENUS & SPECIES NAMED FOR ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY

CANTON – A genus and species of trace fossil newly described by St. Lawrence 
University Chapin Professor of Geology J. Mark Erickson and Class of 2003 
graduate Timothy D. Bouchard has been named by them in honor of the 
University.
      The new fossil organism trace is called Sanctum laurentiensis Erickson 
and Bouchard and is described by the two in a paper published in the July 
2003 issue of the Journal of Paleontology (Vol. 77, No. 5). The fossil 
organisms are from the Ordovician period (approximately 510 million years 
ago) and found in Ohio.
      Erickson and Bouchard presented their research at the 2001 meeting 
of the Geological Society of America.
      The team decided on the name to honor St. Lawrence, according to 
Erickson, who notes that it was done "to the degree possible under the 
rules of zoological nomenclature."

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