Spring Meeting April 27 – 29, 2012
The meeting will be held in Gainesville, Florida at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Members will get a chance to see the Museum’s newest temporary exhibit, “Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway” (www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fossilfreeway).
The exhibit is based on the popular book of the same name by Kirk Johnson with artwork by Ray Troll. Also, some of our own members will be showcasing their own fossil artwork with the exhibit! The weekend will also include a collecting field trip to be determined.
Newsletter
The Summer 2011 FPS newsletter is here! Download the entire newsletter here: Summer 2011 Newsletter (pdf). Articles include:
- FPS Spring Meeting in Bradenton, Florida
- Remembering Reed Toomey
- Remembering Don Bryne
- Board Meeting Minutes from April 10, 2011
- News from the FLMNH Invertebrate Paleontology Division
- Morgan Award Winner – Matt Jarrett
- Fossil bird study describes ripple effect of extinction in animal kingdom
- UF study names new genus of 125-million-year-old eudicot from China
- Florida Fossil Permit FAQs
- An addition to Florida Fossil Invertebrates Part 13: Mollusca Bermont Formation (Middle Pleistocene)
- Fossil collector donates life’s work to Florida Museum of Natural History
Quick highlights
Field trip participants in Phase 10 of the SMR Aggregates Quarry. Here the Pinecrest beds of the Tamiami Formation are exposed.
Beautifully preserved nautiloid (Aturia) collected and prepared by Roger from Middle Miocene part of the Gatun Formation during his 2010 trip to Panama.
A tusk and jaw of a 4.5-million-year-old relative of the rhinoceros. This specimen was collected from a phosphate mine in Polk County by John Waldrop.
