Texas Paleontological Society

03/06/2012

No TPS meeting for March. See you guys and gals in April!

02/01/2012

Dont forget, Dr. Nestell will be speaking to the TPS tonight on his research on the Permian of Russia at 7:30 pm. Be there!~

http://www.uta.edu/ra/real/editprofile.php?pid=90&onlyview=1 #11

01/27/2012

Dr. Nestell will speak to the TPS this Wed Feb 1st on his work with the Permian micro-fauna of Russia. Meeting will be at UTA Earth Sciences, starts at 7pm.

01/02/2012

The TPS meeting for Jan is canceled. See you paleo folks in Feb!

12/08/2011

Pat and Marge Kline gave a great talk on the AAS "Flying Turtle" last night at the Dec Texas Paleo Society meeting at UTA. Here is a pic of Pat showing off the turtle fossils he and Marge have worked on in the UTA-AAS lab:

12/07/2011

From the Big Bend of Texas to the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, Alamosaurus was the "top dog" sauropod!~

http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=10634&origin=homepage-l

New research from Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies and the State Museum of Pennsylvania has unveiled enormous bones from North America's biggest dinosaur.

12/06/2011

This Wed Dec 7th is the last TPS meeting of 2011. Pat and Marge Kline will speak on the AAS Flying Turtle at 7:30pm. Come one, come all!~

10/12/2011

Big Bend National Park in far west Texas has some of the most spectacular fossils in the state; Alamosaurus, Deinosuchus and Quetzalcoatlus!~
For more on Big Bend fossils, see the nps page:

http://www.nps.gov/bibe/naturescience/fossils.htm

Fossils

10/12/2011

Happy National Fossil Day Texas!

http://nature.nps.gov/geology/nationalfossilday/

National Fossil Day

10/07/2011

Texas dinosaurs in the news:

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Arlington_s_Dinosaur_Discovery_Dallas-Fort_Worth-131093998.html

The is a fossil site in North Arlington, an area that used to be part of a coastal everglades swamp millions of years ago.

10/03/2011

The TPS will meet this Wed, Derek Main will speak on his recent trip to the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology and the AAS duck billed dinosaur. Be there!~

09/01/2011

The TPS will have their 1st fall meeting next Wed evening Sept 7th. UTA geology student Nathan Van Vranken will speak on his work in the Carboniferous of Jacksborro Texas.