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Paleontology Calendar #4 1 July 1995. NEW EXHIBIT (Thermopolis, Wyoming) The Wyoming Dinosaur Center opens. Contact the center at 515 Clark, Thermopolis, WY 82443 [tel +1-307-864-5522 or +1-307-864-2997]. NEW DATE. 19 August-2 September 1995. DIG (Spain) The Search for Neanderthals. Searching for fossil hominids in caves in Sima de las Palomas and Cueva Negra, Spain, with Michael Walker of Murcia University, Spain. Also held 10-24 June, 24 June-8 July, and 5- 19 August. $1695. Contact Earthwatch [tel 800-776-0188 (U.S.), info@earthwatch.org]. Autumn? 1995. MEETING (Newcastle, United Kingdom) Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy. No details at this time. [HELP!] CORRECTION. 2-5 September 1995. MEETING (Sudbury, Ontario) Third International Congress on Living and Fossil Brachiopods. Contact Secretariat, Third International Brachiopod Congress, Department of Geology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada [fax +1-705-673-6532]. DATE CHANGE. 3-17 September 1995. DIG (Oxford, England) Oxford Mammoths. Searching for late Tertiary vertebrate fossils with Katharine Scott of Oxford University. Also held 18 June-2 July and 30 July-13 August. $1595. Contact Earthwatch [tel 800-776-0188 (U.S.), info@earthwatch.org]. 5 September-3 October 1995. CLASS (Denver, Colorado) Fossils, Fossils, Fossils: An Introduction to Paleontology. Part of the Denver Museum of Natural History's Certification Program in Paleontology, which prepares volunteers for the museum. Includes basic methods of fossil collection and data recovery, curation, and study. Students are given a brief introduction to the history of life, the scientific value of fossils, and the rules and regulations of fossil collection. Includes one field trip. $40-$50. Contact Anne Beck, Adult Programs, DMNH, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205-5798 [tel +1- 303-370-8287, fax +1-303-331-6492]. NEW DATE. 15 September 1995. LECTURE (Golden, Colorado) The Real Jurassic Park, by Robert Bakker. Sponsored by the Western Interior Paleontological Society. $14 and $17, proceeds to benefit education and research. Tickets [tel +1-800-444-seat (U.S.)]. For information, contact WIPS, P.O. Box 200011, Denver, CO 80220-0011; or Roger Crowe [tel +1-303-657-1579]. 11 September-2 October 1995. CLASS (Denver, Colorado) Paleontology of the Western Interior. Part of the Denver Museum of Natural History's Certification Program in Paleontology, which prepares volunteers for the museum. Explores the rich fossil treasures of the Rocky Mountain states, which includes one of the most complete sequences of fossiliferous rock in the world. $30-$40. Contact Anne Beck, Adult Programs, DMNH, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205- 5798 [tel +1-303-370-8287, fax +1-303-331-6492]. 19 September 1995. LECTURE (Dallas, Texas) Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson will talk on "Ancestors: In Search of Human Origins" in McFarlin Auditorium at Southern Methodist University. In 1974, Johanson discovered the 3.2 Ma skeleton now known as Lucy. $10-$30. Tickets from Ticketmaster [tel +1-214-373-8000]. For information, contact Betsy Harris, Godbey Lecture Series [tel +1-214- 768-2532, fax +1-214-768-4129, email bharris@sun.cis.smu.edu]. 25-28 September 1995. MEETING AND FIELD TRIP (Southampton, United Kingdom) Second meeting of the Bird Bone Working Group, International Council for Archaeozoology, held at the University of Southampton. The meeting will cover a variety of topics dealing with bird remains in archaeology, including the exploitation of domestic and wild birds, changes in bird distributions during the prehistoric period, and problems of identification and bone survival. A 1-day field trip to Dorset will visit a 600-year-old swannery and other sites of ornithological and archaeological interest. Contact Dale Serjeantson, Faunal Remains Unit, Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom [tel +44 (0) 703 676719, fax +44 (0) 703 593032]. 28 September-26 October 1995. CLASS (Denver, Colorado) Reading Planet Earth: An Introduction to Geology. Part of the Denver Museum of Natural History's Certification Program in Paleontology, which prepares volunteers for the museum. Provides an introduction to geology as applied to the fossil record. Students will learn the basics of stratigraphy, sedimentology, geological mapping and dating techniques, and will complete a field report. Includes two field trips. $50-$60. Contact Anne Beck, Adult Programs, DMNH, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205-5798 [tel +1-303-370-8287, fax +1-303-331- 6492]. 7 October 1995-4 February 1996. NEW EXHIBIT (Mesa, Arizona) The Great Russian Dinosaurs, premier U.S. exhibition, at the Mesa Southwest Museum. Features specimens gathered during the past century from Russian and Mongolia. Sponsored by the Paleontological Institute, Moscow. Shown previously in Japan and Australia. Includes 24 full skeletons, 50 skulls, and dozens of other specimens, including nests, eggs, hatchlings, and skin impressions. Includes displays of dinosaurs (Tarbosaurus bataar [skeleton, skull, forelimb, and braincase], Velociraptor mongoliensis [skull], Avimimus portentosus [skeleton], Ingenia yanshini [skull], Gallimimus bullatus [skeleton], Therizinosaurus cheloniformis [claw], Deinocheirus mirificus [arms with hands and claws], Talarurus plicatospineus [skeleton], Tarchia kielanae [skull], Saichania chulsanensis [skull and tail], Shamosaurus scutatus [skull and scutes], Homalocephale calathocercos [skull cast], Prenocephale prenes [skull cast], Iguanodon orientalis [skull], Probactrosaurus gobiensis [skeleton], Arstanosaurus sp. [skeleton], Saurolophus angustirostris [skeleton], Saurolophus sp. [skin imprint], Psittacosaurus mongoliensis [skeleton], Protoceratops andrewsi [2 skeletons, skulls], Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi [skull], Corythosaurus convincens [skeleton]), crocodiles (Shamosuchus [skull]), primitive birds (Gobipteryx [eggs]), primitive mammals (Djadochtatherium [skull]), turtles (Mongolemys elegans [shell]), bony fish (Gurvanichthys mongoliensis, Lycoptera middendorfi), freshwater bivalves (Buginella buginica, Sainshandia mongolica, Plicatotrigonioides khamarinensis), insects (Stychopterus [exoskeleton], Hemeroscopus baissicus [dragonfly], Ephemeropsis [larva], Coptoclava [larva]), fossil plants (Nyssoidea mongolica [fruits], Nelumbo sp. [leaves], Ginkgo sp. [leaves]), temnospondyl amphibians (Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi [skull], Thoosuchus jakovlevi [2 skulls], Benthosuchus korobkovi [skull]), parareptiles (Lanthanosuchus watsoni [skull], Nyctiphruretus acudens [skeleton], Scutosaurus karpinskii [2 skeletons], diapsid reptiles (Garjainia triplicostata [skeleton], Mesenosaurus romeri [skeleton]), synapsid reptiles (Ennatosaurus tecton [skeleton and skull], Biarmosuchus tener [skeleton], Eotitanosuchus olsoni [skull], Estemmenosuchus uralensis [skeleton and skull], Ulemosaurus svijagensis [skeleton], Titanophoneus potens [skeleton], Dicynodon trautscholdi [skull], Lystrosaurus georgi [skeleton], Suminia getmanovi [skeleton], Inostrancevia alexandri skeleton], Dvinia prima [skull]). $5. Contact Mesa Southwest Museum, 53 North Macdonald, Mesa, AZ 85201-7325 [tel +1-602-644-2230, fax +1-602- 644-3424]. 10-14 October 1995. MEETING (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Fifth International Conference on Paleoceanography. Contact Larry Mayer, Department of Surveying Engineering, P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada [email larry@atlantic.cs.unb.ca] or Trudy D. Lewis, Lewis International Inc., ICP-V, Richmond Terrace, Pier 9, 3295 Barrington Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 5X8, Canada [tel +1- 902-492-4988, email icpv@predator.ocoeoan.dal.ca]. CORRECTION. 11-14 October 1995. MEETING (Ottawa, Ontario) Annual meeting of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists. Contact Susan A. Jarzen, Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O. Box 3443 Station D, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Canada [fax +1-613-954- 4724] or Pierre Richard, Laboratoire Jacques-Rousseau, Laboratoire de Paléobiogéographie et de Palynologie, Département de Géographie, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale A, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada [tel +1-514-343-8023, fax +1-514-343-8008]. 27-29 October 1995. SHOW (Glen Rose, Texas) Fossilmania XIII, held at the Somervell County Expo Center. Sponsored by the Austin and Dallas Paleontological Societies. Contact Bill Morgan [tel +1-210-492-9163]. NEW INFORMATION. 1-4 November 1995. MEETING (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Contact Chris Beard, Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 [tel +1-412-622-3246 or 622-5782, fax +1-412-622-8837, email beardc@clp2.clpgh.org] or Mary Ann Schmidt at the museum [tel +1-412-622-3287, fax +1-412-622-8837, email schmidtm@clp2.clpgh.org]. 8 November 1995. MEETING (London, United Kingdom) Palaeontological Association Review Seminar: Biomineralization - Processes, Patterns and Phylogenetic Implications in Calcifying Groups, held at the Natural History Museum. This seminar will "explore how insights from studies of biomineralization processes can enlighten our understanding of shell structure and phylogeny in groups with calcareous skeletons," and "see how knowledge of pattern and diversity of calcified skeletons can be used to constrain investigations of process." The first session will focus on biomineralization processes, mineralogy of calcite and aragonite, and investigatory methods. The second session will be devoted to taxonomic groups. Provisional speakers include S. Mann (University of Bath); J. D. Taylor, M. J. Weedon, J. R. Young, G. Cressey (Natural History Museum); R. Wood (University of Cambridge); and T. Ehrendorfer (U.C.L.). Organizers are Paul D. Taylor [tel +44-071-938-9409, email P.Taylor@nhm.ac.uk] and Jeremy R. Young [tel +44-071-938-8996, email J.Young@nhm.ac.uk]. 15-22 November 1995. CLASS (Denver, Colorado) Research Methods and Report Writing. Part of the Denver Museum of Natural History's Certification Program in Paleontology, which prepares volunteers for the museum. Students learn the basics of preparing a research design for field, laboratory, and scientific projects in paleontology. Students write a research proposal and a report on a project of their choice. $30-$40. Contact Anne Beck, Adult Programs, DMNH, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205-5798 [tel +1-303-370- 8287, fax +1-303-331-6492]. NEW INFORMATION. 18 November 1995. MEETING (London, England) British Micropalaeontological Society Silver Jubilee Meeting. Meeting will include keynote reviews by experts on calcareous nannofossils, conodonts, foraminifera, ostracods, palynomorphs, and radiolaria. Contact J. B. Riding, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, United Kingdom. NEW INFORMATION. 14-15 December 1995. MEETING (Paris, France) Fauna, Flora and Sequence Stratigraphy, organized by Association Paléontologie Française and Société Géologique de France, and held at the Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. The meeting will focus on the interrelationship between paleontological and biological processes and sequence stratigraphy. Languages will be French or English. Contact Association Paléontologie Française, Fauna, Flora and Sequence Stratigraphy Meeting, Laboratoire de Paléontologie, 8, rue Buffon, F- 75005 Paris [tel +33-40-79-30-46, fax +33-40-79-35-80]. 16-20 December 1995. MEETING AND FIELD TRIPS (Galway, Ireland) Palaeontological Association annual meeting, held at University College, Galway. Field trips on 19 December will visit lower Paleozoic rocks of South Mayo, the Carboniferous rocks of the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher or the shellfish laboratory at Carna, south Connemara. Deadline for abstracts is 1 September. Contact the local secretary, David Harper, Department of Geology, University College, Galway, Ireland [tel +353-91-24411 ext. 2351, fax +353-91-750533, email David.Harper@ucg.ie]. 9-23 February 1996. MEETING (Canberra, Australia) 13th Australian Geological Convention. Contact 13th AGC, ACTS, GPO Box 2200, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia [tel +61-6 257 3299, fax +61-6 257 3256, email ihodgson@agso.gov.au]. See also Internet [http://www.agso.au/ (click on information button)]. NEW INFORMATION. 11-13 March 1996. MEETING (Austin, Texas) The annual meeting of the South-Central Section of the Geological Society of America and the South-Central Section of the Paleontological Society. The following are among symposia of interest to paleontologists: Invertebrate Paleontology of the South-Central Region; contact James Sprinkle, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 [tel +1-512-471-4264, fax +1-512-471-9425] or Rena Bonem, Department of Geology, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798-7354 [tel +1-817-755-2361, fax +1-817-755-2673, email bonemr@baylor.edu]. Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary Stratigraphy: K-T Boundary and the Impact; contact Dick Buffler, University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX 78712 [tel +1512-471-6156, email dick@utig.ig.utexas.edu]. Vertebrate Paleontology of the South-Central Region; contact Ernie Ludelius, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 [tel +1-512-471-6556, fax +1-512- 471-9425, email ernie@maestro.geo.utexas.edu] or Tim Rowe, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 [tel +1- 512-471-1725, fax +1-512-471-9425, email rowe@maestro.geo.utexas.edu]. For general information, contact the Geological Society of America, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, CO 80301 [tel +1-303-447-2020]. CORRECTION. March 1996. MEETING (probably Vernal, Utah) Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting. Includes field trip. Contact Sue Ann Bilbey, Utah Field Museum, Vernal, Utah [tel +1-801-789-3799]. 12-14 April 1996. EXPO (Macomb, Illinois) National Fossil Exposition XVIII, held at Western Illinois University. Sponsored by Mid-America Paleontological Society. Contact Gilbert Norris [tel +1-309-786-6505] or Allyn Adams [tel +1-319-391-5443]. 17-19 April 1996. MEETING (London, United Kingdom) International Symposium on the Relationships of Major Arthropod Groups, held at the Natural History Museum. Leading paleontologists, zoologists, embryologists, and molecular biologists will exchange views. The aim is to illuminate the controls on morphogenesis and to discover whether new fossils known from the Cambrian are consistent with phylogenetic hypotheses derived from the study of developmental genes or classical morphology. The format for the meeting will be presentations by each of the key speakers with ample time set aside for discussion. Evening discussion sessions will facilitate the synthesis of results from different fields and identify areas in need of further attention. Speakers include L. G. Abele, M. Akam, G. Boxshall, D. E. G. Briggs, G. Budd, R. A. Dewel, M. Dick, W. Dohle, P. Selden, G. E. Edgecombe, D. J. Eernisse, G. Fryer, O. Kraus, N. P. Kristensen, J. Kukalova-Peck, C. Nielsen, H. F. Paulus, L. Ramskold, A. P. Rasnitsyn, F. R. Schram, W. A. Shear, J. W. Valentine, D. Walossek, P. Weygoldt, P. M. Whitington, R. Willman, and J. Zrzavy. To receive circulars (next one in October), contact (preferably by email) Richard H. Thomas, Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom [fax +44 (0) 171 938 8754, email R.Thomas@nhm.ac.uk]. 4 May 1996. MEETING (Ithaca, New York) Annual membership meeting, Paleontological Research Institution. Contact: PRI, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, NY 14850-1398 [fax +1-607-273- 6620, email wda1@cornell.edu]. 14-18 May 1996. MEETING (Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina) Paleogene of South America Congress. Contact Silvio Casadio, Dpto. Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Uruguay 151, 6300 Santa Rosa La Pampa, Argentina [tel +54 954 33093, fax +54 954 33408]. NEW INFORMATION. 27-29 May 1996. MEETING (Winnipeg, Manitoba) Joint annual meeting of the Geological Association of Canada and Mineralogical Association of Canada. Contact G. S. Clark, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada [tel +1-204-474-8857, fax +1-204-261-7581]. 9-12 June 1996. MEETING (Washington, D.C.) Symposium on Biotic Recoveries from Mass Extinctions, International Geological Correlation Programme Project 335, held at the Smithsonian Institution during the Sixth North American Paleontological Convention (see separate entry for 9-12 June). Contact Douglas H. Erwin, Department of Paleobiology, NHB-121, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560 [tel +1-202-357- 2053, fax +1-202-786-2832, email MNHPB028@SIVM.SI.EDU] or Erle G. Kauffman, Earth Systems Science Center, Deike 248, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-2711 [tel +1-814-863-9663, fax +1-814-865-3191, email claudia@essc.psu.edu]. 23-27 June 1996. MEETING (Switzerland) Carbonates and Global Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach. An SEPM/IAS research conference. Contact Maria Mutti, Geological Institute, ETH-Z, Sonneggstrasse 5, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland [tel +41-1-632-3673, fax +41-1-632-1080, email maria@erdw.ethz.ch]. NEW INFORMATION. 4-14 August 1996. MEETING (Beijing, China) 30th International Geological Congress. Symposia of interest to paleontologists include A-4 (Biological Evolution in the Early History of the Earth), A-6 (Interaction Among the Lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere), 1-6 (Towards an Integrated Global Ordovician Time Scale: Boundaries and Subdivision), 1-7 (The Permian/Triassic Boundary and Global Triassic Correlations), 1-8 (Global Events and Correlation of Jurassic and Cretaceous Strata), 1-10 (Biostratigraphy), 2-1 (Palaeobiogeography and Reconstruction of Palaeocontinents), 2-2 (Global Mass Extinction and Subsequent Biotic Recovery Through Geologic History), 2-3 (Palaeocommunities Through Geological History), 2-4 (Taphonomy, Trace Fossils, and Extraordinarily Preserved Fossil Groups), 2-5 (Evolution of Marine Vertebrates), 2-6 (Evolution and Environmental Significance of Calcareous Algae, Stromatolites, and Mud Mounds), 8-5 (Sedimentary Environments and Biological Evolution of Proterozoic Continents and Continental Margins), 15-4 (Palaeoanthropology and Geoarchaeology), 15-5 (Migration of Plants and Animals Related to Environmental Variation in the Late Cenozoic). Abstract deadline is 1 November 1995. Short courses include SA01-Application of Ichnology to Petroleum Exploration and Sequence Stratigraphy (2-3 August, $150), SA09-Sequence Stratigraphy: Concepts and Application (2-3 August, $250), SC03-Numerical Estimation of Geological Time Scales (15 August, $50), SC04-Automated Sequencing of Stratigraphic Events and Correlation (16 August, $150). Workshops include WB09-Trace Fossils in Sedimentology and Basin Analysis (10-11 August, no cost), WB18-The Shallow Tethys (11 August, no cost). Field trips with special emphasis on paleontology and paleoanthropology include T106-Geology of the Yangtze Gorges Area (27 July-2 August, $950), T115-Jurassic Dinosaur Fossils of Sichuan and Their Taphonomic Conditions (27 July-2 August, $770), T118-The Sinian-Cambrian Boundary Section and the Meishucun and Chengjiang Faunas in Yunnan (28 July-3 August, $946), T203-Palaeoanthropological Relics and Quaternary Speleostratigraphy in Zhoukoudian, Beijing (10 August, $50), T215- Cretaceous Non-Marine Sequences in the Western Hills, Beijing (10 August, $40), T217-Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Faunas in the Luanping- Chengde Region, Hebei Province (10-11 August, $198), T318-Geology of Shengli Oil Field of Shandong Province (15-19 August, $530), T320- Mesozoic and Cenozoic Biota in Shandong Province (15-18 August, $420), T321-Geology of the Fuxin and Fushun Mesozoic and Cenozoic Coal Basins (15-19 August, $1060), T326-Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of the Nanjing Hills and Its Adjacent Areas (15-23 August, $716), T340-same as T106 (15-21 August, $950), T348-Devonian and Carboniferous Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Facies and Palaeontology of Guangxi (15-20 August, $705), T354-Quaternary Geology and Palaeoenvironment of desert and Loess Plateau in Northern China (15-23 August, $935), T394-Permian and Triassic Sequences of Continental Facies in the Dalongkou Area, Jimsar and the Turpan Basin of Xinjiang (15-21 August, $1367), T395- Palaeoecological Environment of Nested Dinosaur Eggs in Xixia, Henan Province (15-20 August, $560). For additional information, contact Secretariat Bureau, 30th IGC, P.O. Box 823, Beijing 100037, China [fax +86-1-8328928]. NEW INFORMATION. 17-24 August 1996. MEETING (Budapest, Hungary) Fifth International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology. Contact IBUSZ Congress, RCS: 551-003-096 ICSEB V, H-1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 2, Hungary [tel +36-1-118-3362, fax +36-1-118-9161]. 8-11 October 1996. MEETING (Tallinn, Estonia) Third Baltic Stratigraphical Conference, sponsored by the Baltic Stratigraphical Association. The theme will be High-Resolution Biostratigraphy and Baltic Regional Stratigraphy. Possible 2-day field trip to visit lower Paleozoic near Tallinn. Contact Dimitri Kaljo, Conference Chair, Institute of Geology, Estonian Academy of Sciences, 7 Estonia Ave., EE0100 Tallinn, Estonia [tel +372.2.454653, fax +372.6.312074, email kaljo@pzgeol.gi.ee]. January 1998. MEETING (Panama) International Bryozoology Association meeting. 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