My Ohio University colleagues Dan Hembree, Royal Mapes, and I took a student to Lifou Island in New Caledonia to conduct fieldwork for a project on modern Nautilus taphonomy.

Our primary field site

A beached specimen

Collecting sedimentology data

Local helpers

Pleistocene reef

Nautilus deposited in the nearshore

Pleistocene reef carbontes- a complicated outcrop!

Pleistocene outcrop