Job Description:

• 1) Studies fossilized remains of plants and animals found in geological formations to trace evolution and development of past life and identify geological formations according to nature and chronology: Recovers and assembles fossilized specimens, notes their positions, and classifies them according to their botanical or zoological family and probable age.

• 2) Prepares treatises on findings for furtherance of scientific study, or as in aid to location of natural resources, such as petroleum-bearing formations.

• 3) May organize scientific expeditions and supervise removal of fossils from deposits and matrix rock formations.

• 4) May specialize in study of plant fossils and be designated Paleobotanist.

• 5) May specialize in study of fossilized micro-organisms and be designated Micropaleontologist.