The West That Was: Exploring Colorado’s Fossil Past
February 12 & 13, 2011

Colorado thousands and millions of years ago was a very different place
from the Rocky Mountain region we know today. From mammoths that grazed
near alpine swamps, todinosaurs that roamed Cretaceous beaches, to sea
lilies that swayed in ancient seas, our
state has a rich fossil history.

Keynote Presentations

James I. Kirkland, PhD, State Paleontologist, Utah Geological Survey
Taphofacies in the Fruita
Paleo Area (FPA): implications for
reconstructing Upper Jurassic paleoecosystems

Vince Matthews, PhD, State Geologist & Director, Colorado
Geological Survey
Colorado’s Colorful and
Fantastic Geology

Kirk Johnson, PhD, Vice President of
Research & Collections and Chief Curator,
Denver Museum of
Nature and Science
K-T Boundry

Ian Miller, PhD, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Snowmass Fossils: Mammoths,
Mastodons and other discoveries
from the recent Snowmass, Colorado, Ice Age findings

Speakers

Louis H. Taylor, PhD
(moderator),
Denver Museum of Nature &
Science
The Colorado State Fossil,
Stegosaurus, and similar
dinosaur-bearing beds in Portugal

Malcolm Bedell,Jr.  Western Interior Paleontological Society
Deep Time on
The Santa Fe Trail: the Oceans of Baculite Mesa

Steve W. Veatch, Friends of Florissant
Florissant Fossil Beds

Linda Soar/Jim Bullecks, Western Interior Paleontological Society
Beachcombing the Broken Rib
two miles high
(Fossils from the Flat Tops area)

Michael L. Graham, Western Interior Paleontological Society
Douglas Pass, Green River
Formation Fossils

Sue Ware, PhD, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Death in High Places: the
fossil fauna of Porcupine Cave,
South Park, Colorado

Emmett Evanoff, PhD, University of Northern Colorado
White River fauna

John R. Foster, PhD, Museum of Western Colorado
Late Jurassic Lilliput: The
Microvertebrate World of the
Morrison Formation

Martin G. Lockley, PhD, University of Colorado at Denver
Dinosaurs and Dinosaur Tracks
of Colorado

Steve D. Jorgenson, Western Interior Paleontological Society
Ontogeny of Didymoceras Hyatt,
1894, in the Late Cretaceous (Middle and Upper Campanian) U.S. Western
Interior