U.S. Postal Dinosaur/Reptile Stamps

Unearthed (so to say) from my stamp collection are two blocks of unused flying reptile and dinosaur stamps.  These 25 cent stamps were issued by the United States Post Office in 1989.  I covered each stamp in its cancelled form earlier in the year.  It was educational for me, as I learned the difference between a dinosaur and flying reptile. An added bonus was learning about issues with the Brontosaurus stamp. 

The following links lead to those entries:

http://louisvillefossils.blogspot.com/2011/04/tyrannosaurus-postage-stamp.html

http://louisvillefossils.blogspot.com/2011/04/stegosaurus-postage-stamp.html


 http://louisvillefossils.blogspot.com/2011/04/pteranodon-flying-reptile-postage-stamp.html

http://louisvillefossils.blogspot.com/2011/05/brontosaurus-apatosaurus-stamp.html

Late Cambrian Brachiopod Talk on 09-30-2011

Cambrian Brachiopod Obolella crassa

Dr. Rebecca Freeman, lecturer at the Earth & Environmental Sciences Department of the University of Kentucky, will present "Brachiopod Extinction and Predation During the Late Cambrian" on September 30, 2011.  This talk will be given at the meeting of the Kentucky Paleontological Society (KPS) of Lexington, Kentucky. Learn more about Dr. Freeman at the U of K web site.

From the KPS "Paleozine" newsletter (Sept. 2011, Vol. 19, No. 9):

"Dr. Freeman’s research uses systematic taxonomy and
biostratigraphy to address the broader issue of understanding
how brachiopods responded to a series of extinction
events that repeatedly affected Laurentian trilobites
during the Late Cambrian–earliest Ordovician. She is also
interested in how linguliform brachiopod diversity was
affected by these extinction events, and whether these
events played a role in the transition from the Cambrian
Fauna, with a dominance of linguliform brachiopods, to
the Paleozoic Fauna, with a dominance of rhynchonelliform
brachiopods."

 

 

The meeting will start at 7:30 PM in the Mines and Minerals Resources Building, Room 101, Rose Street, University of Kentucky campus in Lexington.  Free parking at the structure on Hilltop Avenue. Visit the KPS web site for more information: www.kyps.org

Cambrian Brachiopod Obolella gemma

The brachiopod illustrations were obtained from Second contribution to the studies on the Cambrian faunas of North America by Charles Doolittle Walcott (1886),  Plate X figures 1 and 2.  Images were enhanced and resized before posting.  Book is available at Google Books for free and it is the scan of the copy at the Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College which once belonged to Dr. Alex Agassiz given to him by Charles Walcott on December 13, 1886.  See image of personal inscription:

"A Decade of Dinosaurs" Talk

Dr. Glenn Storrs, Assistant Vice-President of Collections and Research at the Cincinnati Museum Center, will be speaking about the ten years of research at the Mother's Day excavation site in Montana.  He will also cover recent discoveries at the location. Learn more about Dr. Storrs at cincyevolution.com

The talk is entitled "A Decade of Dinosaurs" and will occur Friday, September 23, 2011 at 8 PM EST on the University of Cincinnati campus in room 201 of Braunstein Hall (Old Physics Building).  This presentation is part of the larger Dry Dredgers meeting which is an association of amateur geologists and fossil collectors.

I am a member and it is a very friendly group.  I find the meetings educational and being held in a classroom the seating and displays are great for presentations.

Learn more at their web site: www.drydredgers.org