Regular Monthly Meeting June 11

New Mosasaur

DPS will meet Wednesday, June 11th, at 7PM Central time, in the Boonesville Auditorium (Room H125) in the Ellison Miles Building (Bldg H) at Brookhaven Campus of Dallas College, 3939 Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch.  Amelia Zietlow, of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, will speak on  “Lone Star Lizard Kings: a Gigantic New Mosasaur from Texas”.  Plus, Evan Cerna of Baylor University will receive his DPS scholarship check and tell us about his planned research.

Amelia Zietlow earned her BA in Biology from Carthage College in Kenosha Wisconsin in 2020.  Her senior honors thesis “How to Make Monsters:  Craniofacial Ontogeny in Mosasauridae” was advised by Temple Burling and Thomas Carr.  She is very near completion of a PhD degree in Comparative Biology from the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History.  Her dissertation will be on “Reassessment of North American Mosasaur Morphology and Diversity Informed by Extant Squamates”.  She has already authored 6 publications and given 15 oral or poster presentations at professional meetings, mostly on mosasaurs

DPS meetings are ALWAYS open to the public and FREE!  Members can bring food or snacks to share, and the society provides water or sodas.  Everyone can bring fossils.  We especially love to see mystery specimens and requests for identification.  The meeting will be streamed on Zoom at: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88050803910 (Meeting ID: 880 5080 3910 and Passcode: 753959).

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