March 13 — Great Basin Chapter Meeting with Tylor Birthisel

Join the Great Basin Chapter of Utah Friends of Paleontology for a hybrid meeting Thursday March 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Our speaker will be Tylor Birthisel, Lab and Field Manager at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Tylor will present: Osteology and Ontogeny of Parasaurolophus n.sp from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.

This will be an in-person Great Basin Chapter Meeting and live online via Google Meet. Register here to receive a link to the online meeting

The in-person meeting will be at the Utah Department of Natural Resources main building (see map link at the bottom of this page). We’ll conduct some chapter business before the talk.

About Tylor

Tylor has been the Paleontology Lab and Field Manager at the Natural History Museum of Utah for over 11 years. In summer of 2024 he successfully defended his master’s thesis on the ontogeny of Parasaurolophus with ambitions to publish this work in the not too distant future.

Overhead view of Tylor Birthisel, Lab Manager at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Tylor is gesturing toward a fossil Parasaurolphus dinosaur skull that's in plaster support jacket.