60' x 15'
Traverse City, MI
2025

This mural, created for the inaugural Traverse City Mural Fest, depicts species that were once abundant in the Great Lakes Region, before the Great Lakes! These bony creatures were found in the Paleozoic Sea that covered the region 300 million years ago. Today, we see remnants of this period in the fossilized corals that wash up on the Michigan shoreline—now known to us as Petoskey Stones! Also featured is an ancestor of the modern-day Lake Sturgeon, who has evolved very little in the eons since the Paleozoic era!

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Species include: dunkleosteus, xenocanthus, orthocone, sturgeon, trilobite, rugose coral, honeycomb coral, and hexoganaria coral (Petoskey Stones!).