Thursday, September 27, 2012

Organizational Meeting

We're having our first meeting of the Fall semester today at 5:30 at Mike's Place.  Come on down and we can get all new and returning people acquainted over a beer. We'll also be voting on the regular meeting time for the Fall...I guess...

See you at Mike's!

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Carleton Evolution and Palaeontology at CPC2012

The Canadian Paleontology Conference took place in Toronto this past weekend.  Four grad students from Carleton presented two talks and two posters, for which the following abstracts were published:

Campbell, J.A., Haggart, J.W., Druckenmiller, P.S., Schröder-Adams, C.J., Zazula, G. and Ryan, M.J. 2012.  First record of a Cretaceous plesiosaur from the Yukon Territory.  Canadian Paleontology Conference Proceedings 10: 20.

Cullen, T.M., Ryan, M.J., and Evans, D.C.  2012.  Taxonomy and paleoecology of a vertebrate microsite from the Foremost Formation of southern Alberta, Canada.  Canadian Paleontology Conference Proceedings 10: 27.

Dionne, D., Schröder-Adams, C., and Cumbaa, S.  2012.  Vertebrate fossil-rich bonebeds in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Towards a classification scheme.  Canadian Paleontology Conference Proceedings 10: 28-29.

McFeeters, B.  2012.  Bone "Taxon B": Re-evaluation of a supposed small theropod from the mid-Cretaceous of Morocco.  Canadian Paleontology Conference Proceedings 10: 51-52.