Spring Meeting and Field Trip – May 17-19

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It is time again for the Florida Paleontological Society’s Spring Meeting and Field Trip. This year’s meeting, May 17-19, will be in Bradenton FL. The pdf below includes information about hotel accommodations, the field trip (restricted to members 18 years of age or older), and the Saturday evening cook-out. The field trip waiver that will need to be signed, notarized, and returned with your RSVP and $45.00 Meeting Fee. Mail your RSVP and waiver to:

Secretary
Florida Paleontological Society
University of Florida
PO Box 117800
Gainesville, FL 32611-7800

Everything must be mailed by May 1, 2013. Also note that if you would like to take advantage of the group hotel rate, reservations should be received before April 26, 2013. Please send a short email to fps@flmnh.ufl.edu letting us know you plan to attend.

FPS Spring 2013 Meeting Information (pdf – 68 KB)

 

 

Most Recent Newsletter

Download the entire Summer 2012 newsletter here: Summer 2012 Newsletter (pdf – 1.6 MB).  Articles include:

        • FPS Spring Meeting in Gainesville, Florida
        • Field Trip Report: Possum Creek, Gainesville, FL – April 29, 2012
        • Board Meeting Minutes from April 29, 2012
        • New UF study shows early North Americans lived with extinct giant beasts
        • UF receives $455,000 grant to curate, digitize vertebrate fossils

 

 Quick highlights

Members pose after the second stop of the Haile field trip. Here many people found terrestrial vertebrates, shark teeth, and lots of echinoids


Common fossils found in Possum Creek, Gainesville, FL


Barbara Purdy and Bruce MacFadden inspect an ankle bone of a giant ground sloth unearthed at Vero Beach in the early 1900s