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Pleistocene Texas!

Save the date!
Fossil Fest 2024 is the first weekend in November.

PleistoceneTexas FF Dates Nov. 2 & 3, 2024

Fossil Fest is indoors.

  • Teachers: Extra Credit for Your Students!
  • Homeschool Educators: Great Science Learning Opportunity!
  • Scouts: Presentations can focus on badge requirements.
  • Youth Groups: Plan a great trip to learn about fossils.
  • School / Scout / Youth Groups of 10 or more? Sign up here.

Activities include:

  • Show Spotlight: Pleistocene Mammals
  • Speakers (both days):
    • 11am: Cindi Sirois Collins, author of Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals of Big Bend
    • 1pm: Paul Hammerschmidt: Intro to Fossils
    • 3pm: Matt Harrell on uncovering a mammoth.
  • BYOF: Bring Your Own Fossil for Fossil Identification
  • "Paleo Passport" educational quest for students
  • Exhibits: See what amateur fossil collectors find in Texas
  • Fossil collections: Start yours at the Wheel of Fossils and Fossil Darts
  • Get your Christmas shopping done early! Vendors with fossils, books, art, jewelry, toys and more
  • Hourly and Grand Door Prizes

Show Hours

Day Date Time
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 : showchair at austinpaleo.org
Webmaster : webmaster at austinpaleo.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

All Prizes 

Every adult paid admission includes a raffle ticket for these prizes and additional ones may be purchsed. The drawing takes place at the end of the show and you do not need to be present to win.


 
Stegadon Tooth 

First. Large Stegodon tooth and jaw with stand. This spectactular tooth (over a foot wide) is from a relative of modern elephants that roamed Indonesia in the Pleistocene.


 
Mammonth carved in fossil mammoth bone

Second. A carving of a mammoth in fossilized mammoth bone, with stand.

 
Replica pygmy mammoth femur
 

Third. A pygmy mammoth femur (replica)



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