Join the Great Basin Chapter of Utah Friends of Paleontology for an in-person and online meeting, December 14 at 7:00 PM. We’re planning an open house for folks who can join us before the meeting. This post will be updated with details.
Speaker: Josh Lively, Curator of Paleontology at the Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah.
Topic: “Up a River with Big Paddles: a Freshwater Sea Turtle from the Cretaceous of Utah”
The St George Dinosaur Discovery Site recently purchased a hydraulic lift table with funds donated from the Southwest Chapter of Utah Friends of Paleontology (SW-UFOP).
The next meeting of the Castle Country Chapter of UFOP will be next Tuesday, May 23 at 7 pm in the Prehistoric Museum classroom. Our speaker will be Dr. Ryan King, adjunct professor at Western Colorado University. His presentation is titled: “The Role of Trace Fossil Analysis in Deciphering Mesozoic Paleoecology in the U.S. Western Interior”.
Join the Great Basin Chapter of Utah Friends of Paleontology for and online-only meeting Thursday May 18, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Speaker: Joseph Peterson, Ph.D.
“Dino-Sores: Inferring Dinosaur Behavior
from Injuries and Feeding Traces”
Our next meeting of the Castle Country Chapter of Utah Friends of Paleontology will be next Tuesday, March 28th at 7 pm in the Prehistoric Museum classroom. Our guest speaker will be visiting researcher Dr. Michael D’Emic, Associate Professor at Adelphi University. Dr. D’Emic’s presentation is titled:
“The Evolution and Development of Gigantic and Miniature Theropod Dinosaurs.”
UFOP Great Basin Chapter with speaker Ethan Cowgill — Geological Technicial, Utah Geological Survey
“A New Face for the ‘Savage Reptile’: Cranial Anatomy of a New Specimen of the Jurassic theropod Torvosaurus”
Thursday April 13, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Online & In-Person
Our next meeting of the Castle Country Chapter of Utah Friends of Paleontology will be next Tuesday, February 14th at 7 pm in the Prehistoric Museum classroom. Our speaker, Rob Gaston, will be presenting “The Discovery of Gastonia and Dinosaur Reconstruction.” Click to read the full post with meeting details.
Speaker Colin Boisvert, MSc will present—
“Around the Neck Bend: Working on the Biomechanical Analysis of the Neck of Apatosaurus excelsus using BYU 18531 as a Case Study”
Join the Great Basin Chapter, Utah Friends of Paleontology, February 9 at 7:00 PM for our first hybrid meeting of 2023. Our guest speaker in-person and online at the Utah Core Center will be Colin D. Boisvert, MSc student in Vertebrate Paleontology at Brigham Young University.
Our first Castle Country UFOP meeting will be next Tuesday, January 10 at 7 pm in the Prehistoric Museum classroom. Our speaker will be Dr. Kathleen Ritterbush, associate professor in geology at the University of Utah. Her presentation is entitled “Ammonite Renaissance: How Technology and Imagination Are Changing Our View of Ancient Seas”.
Our last meeting of the year will be Thursday, December 8 at 7 pm in the Utah Core Center. Randy Irmis, PhD will be our speaker and this will be a hybrid meeting available for online attendance.