Future SPS Meetings and Events
October SPS Members Meeting
Our guest speaker on October 13th is Dr. Andrew A. Farke.
Life on the Late Cretaceous Coast: Filling a Biogeographic Gap in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming
The Late Cretaceous of western North America hosted iconic Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems, teeming with life from turtles to tyrannosaurs. Rocks of Campanian age (83.6 to 72.2 million years ago) have received close attention in recent years, with a particular focus on studying latitudinal variation between northern and southern ecosystems of the time. Fieldwork in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming by the Alf Museum reveals new details of the largely unknown “Mesaverde” Formation, dating to around 79 million years and preserving coastal environments along the western edge of the Western Interior Seaway. This area fills a geographic gap, showing strong similarities in the fish assemblage with “warm water” southern formations. Dinosaurs are overwhelmingly represented by hadrosaurs (including brachylophosaurins), but ceratopsians are surprisingly rare. Eggshell and small bones indicate nesting in the region by both hadrosaurs and small theropods. Although interpretations are still in the early stages, the “Mesaverde” Formation promises to be a key data point in understanding evolution along the Cretaceous coastline of western North America.
Link to Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89023347377?pwd=NezToDLl2pN1gujNsoF6VWS8gPYHYI.1
November SPS members Meeting
Our guest speaker for the month of November is Dr. John-Paul Zonneveld. The title and topic of Dr. Zonnevelds talk is yet to be determined.
Link to Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83452764054?pwd=8oQVhVsbybTFo14x2iuzCtmb3D96Lo.1
December SPS members Meeting
Link to Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89602190348?pwd=9DaRdAufLaoIujinOSbC2LL0bqPb4z.1