National Fossil Day – October 17th 2012
“Fossils at the Fort”
Come Join us on Wednesday October 17th, 2012 to celebrate this year’s National Fossil Day. Learn about Coquina, the “Fossil” that built the fort! Hear guest lecturers talk about its use as a construction material and the fossils that are contained within it. See museum collections of Florida fossils and others from around the world.
Location: Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine, FL
Time: 8:45am – 3pm (park open 8:45-5:15)
Cost: Free with park entrance fee (Adults 16 and above $7.00, Children 15 and under free with adult)
Activities: Speakers, Giveaways, Fossil Displays, Junior Paleontologist Program…
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Most Recent Newsletter
Download the entire Winter 2012 newsletter here: Winter 2012 Newsletter (pdf – 3.9 MB). Articles include:
- FPS Winter Meeting in Lake City/Branford, Florida
- FPS Spring Meeting in Gainesville, Florida
- Board Meeting Minutes from December 11, 2011
- UF study names new ancient crocodile relative from the land of Titanoboa
- Earliest horses show past global warming affected body size of mammals
- Bob Sinibaldi Receives Prestigious Florida Museum of Natural History’s Howard Converse Award
- UF scientists name new ancient camels from Panama Canal excavation
- Dinosaurs invade Gainesville with ‘Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway’ exhibit
Quick highlights
Daniel Porter of Tallahassee inspects everyone’s finds in the Branford quarry during the Winter Meeting.
Ross Secord holding a fossil jaw of Coryphodon, a large, semi-aquatic creature, similar to a hippopotamus. Secord's group used oxygen isotope values in its teeth to establish a record of temperature change during the PETM
The left mandible of Floridatragulus nanus, also from the Las Cascadas Formation
Russell Brown, left, president of the Florida Fossil Hunters Club and member of FPS, shows shark jaws to a family during opening day of Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway