March 22 & 23, 2025
Green Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
Posters & exhibits
Posters and exhibits will be on display throughout the symposium on Saturday, March 22, and Sunday, March 23. A poster session will be held Saturday afternoon.
The Founders Symposium welcomes posters on any paleontological topic. The goal of the poster session is to showcase paleontology to symposium attendees and the the public. Posters that have been previously shown at scientific conferencs are welcome. We encourage posters from:
Western Interior Paleontological Society members who want to share information about their projects
Students and early career paleontologists who would like to gain experience developing and presenting scientific posters
Recipients of WIPS’ Karl Hirsch Memorial Research Grants and Jordan Sawdo Service and Outreach Grants who would like to showcase their work and fulfill reporting requirements
Poster Session – Saturday, March 22, 2025, 2:45–3:45 PM
Alphabetical by title
A new chondrichthyan genus and species from the Middle Pennsylvanian Minturn Formation of Colorado, USA, based on a tooth resembling those of Venustodus
Wayne Itano
A New Middle Campanian Molluscan-Dominated Fossil Assemblage from the Marine Shale Member (“North Platte Tongue”) of the Mesaverde Formation: implications for the depositional age of the Parkman Sandstone Member and Nonmarine Middle Member
Zachary Tenney, Joshua Slattery, Kent Sundell
Day Camp Based Education of Geological and Paleontological Sites of the Dinosaur Ridge Fossil Area
Amanda Rea, Erin LaCount, Amy L. Atwater
Dental alveolli potentially drive tooth crown shape ontogenetically in Alligator and Crocodylus
David Ian Kay, Haley O’Brien, Paul Gignac
Early evidence of Brachylophosaurini (Hadrosauridae: Saurolophinae) from the lower Wahweap Formation of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Southern Utah, USA
Bryce A. Cassiano, Joseph J. Sertich, Madison S. Watkins, Natalie G. Toth, Salvador Bastien, Alan L. Titus
Faunal Diversity and Community Analysis of the Orellan White River Group/Formation of the U.S. Western Interior
Jessie Easterwood, Joshua Slattery, Zachary Tenney and Jean-Pierre Cavigelli
First occurrence of the amiid fish Melvius from the Late Cretaceous Almond Formation of southern Wyoming: stratigrahic and taxonomic implications
Fisher McDiarmid, Ethan Warner-Cowgill, Glenn W. Storrs, Matthew Lamanna, Quinnlan Hawkins, Matthew Affolter, Logan Ashurst-Mcgee, Kennth C. Raybunr, Luke Kosowatz and Danny Anduza
High Precision Correlation of the North American Western Interior Basin as an Insight to Volcanic Migration and Provenance from the Maastrichtian to Danian
Dorian Gursky
Investigating Late-Holocene Paleoenvironmental Change in the Snowy Range, WY: A multiproxy analysis of a fen peatland
Kate O. Malmberg, Dulcinea V. Groff, and Bryan N. Shuman
New Marine Invertbrate Faunas from the Austin Group (Upper Cretaceous, Coniacian) of North Texas, USA
Keith P. Minor, Joshua S. Slattery, Neil H. Landman, William P. Elder, Matthew Hiddleston
Relative abundance of macrovertebrates from the early Danian of Colorado shows evidence for niche partitioning just after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction
Sadie Sherman, Alexandria Polich, Holger Petermann, Tyler R. Lyson
The anatomy of a giant gar that lived in the immediate aftermath of the K/Pg extinction
Jacob Wilson
The Kremmling Cretaceous Ammonite Locality of Grand County, Colorado: A window into the Late Campanian Marine Ecosystem of the Western Interior Seaway
Joshua Slattery, Keith P. Minor, Peter J. Harries, Andres L. Cardenas, Lenora A. Sava, Ashley L. Sandess
The Preparation and Storytelling of a Juvenille Theropod: Discovering Teen Rex
Alexandria Polich
Exhibitors & Displays
Exhibitors scheduled to date include:
Bureau of Land Management
Colorado Scientific Society
Denver Museum of Nature & Science (display case)
Dinosaur Ridge
Friends of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
University of Wyoming
Western Interior Paleontological Society (display cases)