WIPS Symposium Lagerstatten Denver March 23-24, 2019

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The 11th annual Western Interior Paleontological Society (WIPS) Founders Symposium with the theme of Lagerstatten (exceptional preservation) is near.

 

It promises to be a Who's Who of paleo experts presenting over two weekend days.

 

More details can be found here:

 

http://westernpaleo.org/symposiums/2019_pages/about-2019.php

 

SPEAKERS

Speakers are coming from across the country to tell us about Lagerstätten — famous deposits known for their exceptionally preserved fossils — from Canada's Burgess Shale to Colorado's own Florissant Formation. Paleontologists scheduled to date are:

• Derek Briggs (keynote)
• Yale University
• Konservat-Lagerstätten — Burgess Shale and beyond
• William Ausich
• The Ohio State University
• Crawfordsville Indiana: Research inspired by a crinoid Lagerstätte
• Brent Breithaupt
• BLM-Western Region
• Robledo Mountain Formation vertebrate and invertebrate trackways (Permian, New Mexico)
• John Foster
• Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum
• Cambrian Soft-body Preservation in the House Range Embayment Succession (Wheeler, Marjum, and Weeks Formations), Millard County, Utah
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• Lance Grande
• Field Museum of Natural History-Chicago
• The Lost World of Fossil Lake. Snapshots from Deep Time
• James Hagadorn
• Denver Museum of Nature & Science
• Fossil Jellyfish: The Ultimate in Remarkable Preservation
• John-Paul Hodnett
• M-NCPPC Dinosaur Park
• The Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian) Denizens of Kinney Brick Quarry, a Lagerstätte from the Atrasado Formation in Central New Mexico
• Sharon Holte
• The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs
• Ongoing and New Research at the Mammoth Site — Over 40 Years of Discovery
• Frank Krell
• Denver Museum of Nature & Science
• High Quality Insect Preservation — Fossils in Amber (Baltic, Lebanon, Myanmar) and from the Messel Formation (Eocene, Germany), with emphasis on scarab beetles
• Martin Lockley
• University of Colorado-Denver (Emeritus)
• An Ichnological Konservat-Lagerstätten in the Cretaceous of Korea: The Fruits of an Innovation in Tetrapod Tracks Research
• John Maisey
• American Museum of Natural History (Curator Emeritus)
• The Santana Fossil Assemblages from Brazil
• Herbert Meyer
• Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
• The Fossils of Florissant
• Roy Plotnick
• University of Illinois
• Mazon Creek:A Pennsylvanian Konservat-Lagerstätte in Illinois
• James Schiffbauer
• University of Missouri
• Through the Taphonomic Lens: Witnessing the Dawn of Animals at the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition
• Hans-Peter Schultze
• Curator Emeritus, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas
• Solnhofen, a Window into the Jurassic Time

 

Talk titles subject to change

 

 

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For those unfamiliar, the WIPS conference is always a good time.  If you are in the area. by all means, go.  

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FYI, online registration for the Western Interior Paleontological Society (WIPS) Founders Symposium will be open through March 22, and walk-in registration will be available on-site on March 23-24. Registration is required to attend the talks, but not to just stop by and see the exhibits, fossil displays and art show (19 paleo artists). The symposium is in a new venue for 2019, the Lowry Conference Center in Aurora. Lots of free parking!