Tag: paleontology
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3 Dinosaurs Are One
Via Science News: …Three dinosaurs that were thought to belong to very different groups are actually kids, teens and adults of the same genus, researchers say. “I made a brand new dinosaur hall at the museum three years ago, and now I have to change it,” says Jack Horner of the Museum of the Rockies…
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Paleontology Meeting, Saturday 10/17, Mazon Creek Worms
Paleontology Meeting, Saturday, 10/17, 7:30 pm, Show and Tell and doing more photography for Mazon Creek Fauna book – Mazon Creek Worms. College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131. Graphic: Illinois State Museum database.
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Researcher uncovers oldest amber ever recorded: The Mystery of Illinois Amber
Via NYTimes: Hat tip: Mark White
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Torosaurus Challenge
Scientific American reports on one of the important papers presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: “A rare horned dinosaur known as Torosaurus may not be a distinct species after all, according to a presentation given Friday at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Bristol, England….” Photo of Triceratops skeleton at…
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Identification References
Larson Quarry Fossil Identification and Illinois Geode Collecting Links Dave Carlson’s Larson Quarry Fossil documentIllinois Geode Collecting from the ISGS.
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Who Wants to Go to SVP ?(Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting)
Can’t go to Bristol England right now? Well then at least read Scott’s comments about SPV at the Burpee Museum of Natural History blog.
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News for the Younger Members
A gift idea for those with younger people in their life… the Paleobet poster via Scienceblogs. On the same subject of paleo for the young, the popular band, They Might Be Giants (TMBG), has a fun video and song named “I am a paleontologist”… (this and other songs by TMBG are the Schoolhouse Rock! of…
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Paleontology Meeting – Saturday, 5/16, 7:30 – The Search for Dinosaurs in Illinois
Paleontology Meeting, Dave Carlson: “The Search for Dinosaurs in Illinois” 7:30 pm, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131. Photo: Aurora, IL Police Dinosaur, as taken by geognerd.
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Paleontology Meeting – Saturday, 4/18, 7:30 – Silurian Fossils in NE IL
Paleontology Meeting, Silurian Period in Northeastern Illinois by Dave Dolak, Esconi Member. 7:30 pm, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131. All are welcome! Bring your Silurian fossils. Excerpt from the Field Museum: “Life landed ashore during the Silurian & Devonian periods. Plants colonized the continents, creating habitats for the ancestors of today’s animals…”…
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General Meeting: Friday, April 10, 8 pm: Hadrosaur Find by Bucky Gates
On Friday, April 10th, at 8:00 pm in Room #131 Building K, College of Dupage, Bucky Gates, Assistant Professor at Lake Forest College, will speak about “New Hadrosaur Find and Their Bearing on Cretaceous Land Bridges and Macroevolutionary Trends of the Group”. (1st Photo: Lake Forest College)(2nd photo: Utah Museum of Natural History.)
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Paleontology Meeting – Saturday 3/21 at 7:30 pm
The Paleontology Study Group meets this Saturday, 3/21 at 7:30 pm at College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Ordovician fossils will be discussed.
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Paleontology Meeting – Saturday 2/21 at 7:30 pm
Paleontology Meeting, 7:30 pm, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131. Chris Cozert will speak on Mazon Creek flora and fauna. Bring your Mazon Creek fossils!
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General Meeting – Friday, February 13, 2009
It will be a lucky Friday the 13th for those attending the General Meeting at 8:00 pm in Room K-131. Cary Easterday from the Department of Earth Sciences, Northeastern Illinois University, will give us an updated and expanded version of his presentation from the 2002 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting entitled: From Chasing Butterflies to Mazon Creek to…
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If I Could Turn Back Time: Over a Decade With ESCONI by Mary Fairchild
“The Mazon Creek flora is renowned for being almost completely collected by amateurs. Since 1858, in an area covering approximately 100 square miles, untold numbers of collectors have gathered fossils in quantities unprecedented in North America.” Jack Wittry In the mid-1990s when our family first became interested in collecting fossils, one of our…
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Past Paleontology Meetings
January 15, 2000 Micro-Fossils/Identifying Mazon Creek Animals February 19, 2000 Identifying Mazon Creek Plants March 18, 2000 Larson Quarry. Bring in Specimens from your trips to this quarry. Dave Carlson will be giving a detailed presentation with overheads, handouts and specimen displays of his collecting at this local quarry. He will discuss the history, geology…
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Paleontology Study Group Information
The Paleontology Study Group meets the third Saturday of the Month at 7:30 p.m. in room 161 of the K Building at the College of DuPage Glen Ellyn Campus. Chairperson: John Good
