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| The field trip to Big Bend National Park inTexas was enjoyed by attendees of the SVP 67th Annual Meeting (2007). Photo courtesy of Rebecca Hunt. |
Advanced registration for all field trips is required. Field trip registration is available online. Onsite field trip registration will not be accepted. All field trips are subject to change. SVP reserves the right to alter or cancel a field trip due to low registration or if access to sites is limited or closed to the public. Read the Field Trip Cancellation Policies.
Classic Cleveland Shale Fossil-Fish Localities in the
Cleveland, Ohio Area
Tuesday, October 14
This one-day trip will visit classic Cleveland Shale fossil-fish localities in northeastern Ohio to the east and west of Cleveland. These will include classic outcrops along Euclid Creek, Big Creek and the Rocky River that have yielded many specimens of arthrodires such as Dunkleosteus and Titanichthys, and sharks such as Cladoselache. They will include type localities for a number of species as well as genera such as Chagrinia. We will examine components of the Chagrin and Cleveland Shales, including the shale itself, the Skinners Run pyrite bed (a prominent lag deposit at the base of the unit) and cone-in-cone layers (which are sometimes associated with fossil fish) found in the upper parts of the Cleveland Shale. Some hiking in streams will be necessary; we recommend nonslip shoes or boots that can get wet.
Attire: Temperatures are very variable. We may get dirty and
we will certainly get at least somewhat wet.
Departure: 8:00 a.m. from the lobby of the
Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
(meet at the white marble fountain).
Return: 7:00 p.m. to the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Cost: $80 per person
Cost includes: Transportation while on the field trip, lunch, afternoon
snack and a field guidebook.
Trip minimum: 22
Trip maximum: 43
Registration
deadline: Thursday, August 28, 2008
Co-organizers:
Robert K. Carr
Ohio University
Athens, OH USA
E-mail: carrr1@ohio.edu
Joe Hannibal
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Cleveland, OH USA
E-mail: hannibal@cmnh.org
Fieldtrip to the Laboratory of Physical Anthropology at
the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Tuesday, October 14
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has a long and rich history of contributions to our understanding of human's place in nature. The Laboratory of Physical Anthropology is the home of the extensive Hamann-Todd Osteological collections, which has over 3,500 well-documented human skeletons and a large and diverse collection of nonhuman primate skeletons (including the world's largest collection of lowland gorilla skeletons), which are significant resources for comparative anatomy analyses. The laboratory is intensively used by specialists ranging from hominid paleontologists, primatologists, orthopaedic surgeons and pathologists to graduate and undergraduate students. The Laboratory of Physical Anthropology has been the research base of many noted scientists who have discovered and analyzed the fossil evidence for human evolution, including the naming of the species Australopithecus afarensis, Ardipithecus kadabba, and Au. garhi. As a result, the laboratory has casts of most of the Australopithecus afarensis specimens, including the world-famous 'Lucy' skeleton, and casts of a variety of other hominid species. This half-day field trip to the CMNH will include a tour by Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie of the Laboratory of Physical Anthropology with its extensive holdings of human and nonhuman primate skeletons, short presentations of recent fossil hominid discoveries from Ethiopia by the trip leaders and an opportunity to explore the museum's public galleries. The trip leaders hope that an in-depth discussion on hominid evolution can be generated using the incredible resources of the Laboratory of Physical Anthropology. Admission to the museum is included.
Departure: The bus will depart from the Renaissance
Cleveland Hotel at 9:00 a.m.
Return: The bus will depart the museum in
the early afternoon.
Cost: $50 per person
Trip minimum: 20
Trip maximum: 23
Registration
deadline: Thursday, August 28, 2008
Co-organizers:
Yohannes Haile-Selassie
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Cleveland, OH USA
E-mail: yhailese@cmnh.org
Scott Simpson
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH USA
E-mail: scott.simpson@case.edu
Rocks and Fossils in the Middle of Downtown Cleveland
Wednesday, October 15
This walking tour of downtown Cleveland will feature stones found on the insides and outsides of classic Cleveland buildings and more modern structures. We'll examine the mineral and fossil content of these stones, and we will discuss the geological setting of downtown Cleveland and the Pleistocene fossils that have been occasionally found in the area during excavations for city infrastructure. We will experience slices of a Middle Devonian coral-reef deposit in a library, pelagic Italian limestones complete with ammonites in a hotel lobby and cut-away views of the hamburger-size Ordovician snail Maclurites magnus (yes, the first big Mac) in a skyscraper!
Attire: Comfortable walking shoes, appropriate clothing
(we will be inside and outside during the trip) and an umbrella if it is raining.
Departure: 1:00 p.m. from the lobby of the Renaissance
Cleveland Hotel (meet at the white marble fountain in the lobby).
Return: 4:00 p.m. to the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Cost: $10 per person
Cost includes: Field trip guidebook, drink and a light snack.
Trip minimum: 4
Trip maximum: 25
Registration deadline: Thursday, August 28, 2008
Note: This trip will be suitable for everybody;
a paleontological or geological background is not necessary.
Organizer:
Joe Hannibal
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Cleveland, OH USA
E-mail: hannibal@cmnh.org
Field Trip Cancellation Policies: