Paleontology Study Group Meeting
October 16, 2004
Chair John Good called the meeting to order and
introductions were made. Topics are needed for January, February and March
meetings. The November meeting will be member Jim Schmidt talking on “Early
Life”.
The next MAPS meeting will be about “Bivalves” and will be the second weekend in
April. Randy Bultman talked about Field Trips. The St. Paul quarry trip
consisted of 8 people. They found brachiopods and some trilobites. He may be
going again the Saturday before Thanksgiving. The Cinder Ridge Golf Course has
been open for fossil hunters and many large and interesting concretions have
been found there. Many members mentioned that they found buckets of great
looking concretions. It is open to the public so an ESCONI field trip is not
necessary to collect there. John mentioned the possibility of a longer trip next
year – maybe to Florida – if there is interest. Randy will plan more geode trips
to Jacobs and Scheffler if there is interest. The holiday party will be at Villa
Nova Restaurant again this December. John mentioned that starting in January COD
will be charging ESCONI for its meetings and show times. It also looks like they
will not let us have the K Commons on the Friday before our March Show for
setup. It may mean setting up early Saturday morning. The Board will be looking
at the COD contract next week.
SHOW & TELL 2
This meeting is a continuation of the September meeting and more members shared
with the group about recent adventures in earth science. John Catalani brought
fossils from Waldron Quarry in Indiana as well as blastoids and crinoids from
St. Paul Quarry. He also pointed out a recent technical article that indicated
that mososaurs ate cephalopods as indicated by teeth marks on the fossil shells.
Ammonites are gone now, but nautiloids survived.
Chris Cozart reported on his and John Catalani’s participation at the Open House
at the Illinois Cement Quarry on October 4 in LaSalle, Illinois.
Irene Broede reported on her visit to a shell pit near Arcadia Florida. Her big
finds were a nice Megalodon tooth along with alligator teeth, and a glyptodont
scute. She also revisited a dinosaur quarry in Price Utah where she found
petrified wood, early Cretaceous brachiosaurid bones and Nodosaur bones. In
Vernal Utah she visited the new Museum and Dinosaur National Monument.
Roger Sesterhenn showed a whale vertebra from the Lee Creek Mine in North
Carolina.
Mark Kmiecik brought in many of the Mazon Creek nodules he found at Cinder
Ridge.
The meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully Submitted Karen Nordquist, Secretary
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