WIPS Meeting Invitation

 From the Western Interior Paleontology Society (WIPS) to the DPS:

Please join us via Zoom on Monday, April 5 at 8 PM Central Time for our next presentation

7:15 p.m. CT - Virtual social time

8 p.m. CT - Announcements and speakers

Monday, April 05, 2021, 8 PM MT
Speaker: ReBecca Hunt-Foster

Monumental Discoveries at Dinosaur National Monument

Abstract:  Dinosaur National Monument was established in 1915 to protect and preserve the significant paleontological resources of the historic Late Jurassic Carnegie Quarry. The monument was expanded in 1938 and now protects 210,844 acres in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado. Dinosaur National Monument is situated on the eastern end of the Uinta Mountains, a broad anticline that formed during the Laramide Orogeny. The historic Carnegie Quarry was actively excavated from 1909 to 1922, with over 1,500 dinosaur bones still on display at the monument. A large diversity of work has taken place throughout monument's Mesozoic ecosystems, from studies of Triassic and Jurassic age trackways, to late Jurassic and early Cretaceous fossils, including the discovery of new species of lizards, frogs, salamanders, and dinosaurs. This talk will explore these notable discoveries and highlight future research directions.

About the Speaker:  – ReBecca Hunt-Foster is the Monument Paleontologist and Museum Curator at Dinosaur National Monument. She was formerly the District Paleontologist for the Canyon Country District of the BLM, located in Moab. ReBecca holds a Master of Science in Geology (emphasizing in Vertebrate Paleontology) from Texas Tech University, and has a Bachelor’s of Science in Earth Science from the University of Arkansas. Her current research includes Early Cretaceous ornithomimosaurs from North America, the Upper Cretaceous Williams Fork Formation paleofauna of western Colorado and eastern Utah, the ichnofauna of the lower-middle Jurassic rocks of eastern Utah. ReBecca has worked as a paleontologist in western Colorado and eastern Utah since 2007.