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Handouts and Biographies

These papers, handouts and biographies are provided courtesy of our speakers and members.

• January, 2025
  • A Basic Fossil Database. Spreadsheet based, portable, sharable. Includes a PDF overview, template, and label printing capability using Word or Libre Office (zip file, 19 MB), Michael K. Smith. Paleontological Society of Austin, 2025.
• April, 2021
  • Fossil Collecting 101 - Part 2 Making a Collection (pdf, 52MB), Erich Rose. Paleontological Society of Austin, 2021.
• February, 2021
  • Fossil Collecting 101 - Part 1 Finding Fossils (pdf, 52MB), Erich Rose. Paleontological Society of Austin, 2021.
• January, 2021
  • Pilot Knob, an Extinct Cretaceous Volcanic Ecosysytem (pdf, 200MB), Linda McCall, James Sprinkle, Ann Molineaux, Christopher Garviue. University of Texas at Austin, 2012, 2021. Note: This file is large. If you want a smaller but lower resolution version, load this 20 MB version.
• October, 2020
  • Exceptional Color/Color Pattern Retention in 30 MY Old Oligocene Invertebrate Specimens from North Topsail Beach, NC (pdf, 9.9MB), Linda McCall, NCFC; University of Texas at Austin
• September, 2020
  • Crustaceans of the Glen Rose and Walnut Formations of Central Texas (pdf, 100MB), Erich Rose.
• June, 2020
  • Georeferencing at the UT Non-vertebrate Lab (pdf, 75MB), Michael Smith. A recording of this presentation is available on YouTube.
• June, 2019
  • Echinoids of the Glen Rose Redux (pdf, 27MB), Erich Rose.
• March, 2010
  • The Latest in Ptychodus (pdf), David Linberg
• January, 2014
  • A Sampling of Paleozoic Sharks (pdf), David Linberg
• May, 2009
  • Hugh Downs Unofficial Biography, Wally Downs.
  • Hugh Downs Biography.
  • Three Scale Models of the Universe (pdf), Hugh Downs.
  • Acceptance of New Ideas in Science (pdf), Hugh Downs and Wally Downs. Presented at the 19 May 2009 meeting of the Paleontological Society of Austin by Hugh Downs and Wally Downs.