2023 Tate Conference....The Triassic

[jpc]

Hello all-

Time to announce the 27th annual Tate Field Conference!

 

Happening here in Casper, Wyoming on June 2-4.  I would love to see some Forum members show up.  Here is the info....

(We are going fully live,  no online presentations or attendees).   

 

 

We hope you'll join us for the 27th Annual Tate Conference, "The Triassic: Gateway to the Mesozoic," June 2nd - 4th at the Tate Geological Museum. The conference features a day of speakers (Saturday June 3) and two days of field trips (June 2 and 4). Saturday evening includes a dinner and guest keynote speaker, Hans Sues of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. He will be speaking on new and exciting finds from the Triassic of Germany.  We also have great field trips planned:

Friday June 2… 33-Mile Road
This trip will take us to the Triassic deposits on 33-Mile Road northwest of Casper in the area of the Red Wall.  A site was found here in on July 7 1977, which led to the discovery of the type specimen of Heptasuchus.   Crews from the University of Wisconsin (and others) have been exploring this area more recently.  Aaron Kufner of UW Madison will lead the portion of this trip to a site the UW teams found and have been collecting nearby.   We may do some surface collecting at the Heptasuchus site (officially called the Clarke Locality) as well. This trip is on BLM land, and done with permission of the BLM.  Personal collecting of vertebrate fossils is not allowed on BLM land, so all fossils (including fragments) collected will be collected for the University of Wisconsin collections.  This is also a sage grouse lekking and nesting area.  If we run into sage grouse nests, we are to keep our distance and report the nest.
 
Sunday June 4… Little Red Creek
This trip will be an exploration of the Alcova Limestone.  The Alcova Limestone was possibly deposited in a lagoonal situation and has produced one taxon of fossil vertebrate, the sauropterygian, Corosaurus alcovensis.  Remains of this animal are only found in Natrona County, southwest of Casper (so far).  We will be exploring a new area that presumably has not been explored for Corosaurus bones, or at least not since the 1980’s.  The bones occur in resistant limestone best found on talus slopes, so this trip will incur some more difficult walking on steep slopes.  This trip is on BLM land, and done with permission of the BLM.  Personal collecting of vertebrate fossils is not allowed on BLM land, so all fossils (including fragments) collected will be collected for the Tate Museum collections under permit number PA10-WY -191.

You can learn more about the talks and register online (or download a registration form) here https://www.caspercollege.edu/tate.../events/conference/  

[fossilhunter21]

Sounds like it is going to be pretty awesome, JP! If only there was some way that I could make it... 

 

Cheers and Shalom,

 

-Micah