Save the date!
Fossil Fest 2024 will be the first weekend in November.
Fossil Fest is indoors.
Activities include:
Daily Schedule of Educational Talks:
TBD
Show Hours
Day | Date | Time |
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Saturday | November 2 | 9:00am to 5:00pm |
Sunday | November 3 | 9:00am to 5:00pm |
Admission:
$3/adult, $2/child (6-12), children under 6 free.
Special rates may apply for school, scout and youth groups. Inquiries can be made here.
Contacts:
Show Chair : showchairaustinpaleo.org
Webmaster : webmasteraustinpaleo.org
Location:
Old Settler's Heritage Association (inside)
Next to the Dell Diamond on US Highway 79, Round Rock, TX 3 miles east of IH-35. See map below.
Grand Door Prizes from 2023
2023 Grand Door Prize. Chevron (a lower part of the vertebrae) is from a fossilized Edmontosaurus annectens - a hadrosaur (duck bill) that linved in South Dakota during the late Cretaceous. Also included is an autographed copy of Locked in Time by Dean Lomax, an internationally recognized paleontologist.
2023 Door Prize. Fossilized crinoid plate from Morocco. This dates to the Silurian period and is around 430 million years old.
2023 Door Prize. 3D print of a vertebrae of an Iberospinus, a new early Cretaceous dinosaur described in 2022. It was printed with special permission from Professor Dario Estravis-López. The original specimen was found by an amateur fossil collector, Carlos Natario, in the Papo Seco Formation in Portugal. It is accompanied by a copy of the publication in which the original is pictured.