Birmingham Paleontological Society

This month's program will be "Eastern Dinosaurs" by James Lamb.

BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the McWane Science Center. Park in the deck on "Level C", go through doors marked Special Event Center, and follow signs to meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.

This month 14 people showed up for the BPS trip and collected in Mississippian age fossils in St. Clair county, Alabama. Along with the perfect brachopods and horned coral, quite a few trilobite parts were found in the Ft. Payne chert.

Photos courtesy Martha Ivey and Vicki Lais.

These links were provided by Sandy Ebersole of the Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama:

From the Anniston Star:

Nov. 15: Lecture by Dr. Jim Lacefield, retired adjunct professor from the University of North Alabama; 6 p.m.

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To our members - we plan to use the website to keep you informed of the latest information from the meetings, including preliminary field trip information.

BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the McWane Science Center. Park in the deck on "Level C", go through doors marked Special Event Center, and follow signs to meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.

Program by Jun Ebersole - Preview of the next major McWane Science Center Exhibit - Alabama Cretaceous Dinosaurs, which is expected to open around March 14, 2008.

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The current drought brought us to a favourite site in the Conasauga formation in Cherokee County, hoping that low water levels would have exposed more finds. Unfortunately, it proved to be a double-edge sword in that, while more shoreline was exposed, with the lack of water washing the rocks, the trilobite pickin's were slim, indeed. However, our first stop was at a Dresdachian stage site which produced a bumper crop of brooksella, so, win some, lose some. Stop 2 was an Albertan stage site where a few really nice trilobite finds kind of made up for the scarcity.

On Monday, October 29, 2007, Dr. Roger Sauterer will present a noon lecture titled Fast Times in the Cretaceous: The Life and Times of Tyrannosaurus rex. The seminar will be held at UAB, in the Alumni Auditorium at Hill University Center. The lecture is sponsored by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.