Contact Tiffany Adrain, Collections Manager (tel: 319 335 1822), for fossil identification and scientific research loans and visits. For meteorite enquiries please contact Ray Anderson. For school visits and activities please contact Sarah Horgen, UI Museum of Natural History Education Coordinator. All other enquires can be directed to the Geoscience Department, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, (tel: 319 335 1818).
Virtual Exhibitions
Iowa's Fossil Hunters!
a new web site celebrating the Iowans
who built the UI's fossil collection
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| Visit our new exhibit, Iowa's Ice Age Giants, at the UI Pentacrest Museums Old Capitol Museum, running until August 5th, 2013. See some of our biggest and most intriguing Ice Age fossils on display and learn all about life in Iowa 15,000 years ago. Explore further afield with Ice Age Scavenger Hunt.
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The Fossil Guy is back! Saturday, April 27 2:00 p.m. Macbride Auditorium The extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the “Age of Dinosaurs” 65 million years ago provided an opportunity for relatively small mammals to evolve to great size, diversify, and flourish across our planet. This program will focus on three major groups of mammals. First, we will study fossils including many skulls of mammals that lived in the Western U.S. 30 million years ago. Attendees will then be able to see and touch replica and mineralized bones, skulls and jaws from Ice Age mammals living from 2.6 million years ago to 11,700 years ago around the world. |
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Links:
University of Iowa
Department of Geoscience Museum of Natural History University of Iowa Collections Coalition
NMITA: Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America
Mid America Paleontology Society Cedar Valley Rocks and Minerals Society Eastern Iowa Paleontology Project
page last updated 4/26/12 by TSA