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Presenting Prehistory: Digging Deeper into Egg Mountain: A Unique Late Cretaceous Terrestrial Assemblage with Dr. David Varricchio
March 5 @ 5:30pm
Thursday, March 55:30 p.m. | Hager Auditorium
Included with membership, $5/non-member
Registration is required
Egg Mountain (a.k.a. MOR’s Beatrice R. Taylor Paleontology Research Area) became world famous in 1979 for producing the first dinosaur eggs and egg clutches from North America. New excavations from 2010 to 2016 continued to document the site as an important nesting ground but also highlight Egg Mountain as a singular window into terrestrial ecologies in the Late Cretaceous of Montana. Join Dr. David Varricchio, Professor of Earth Sciences at MSU, as he digs deeper into Egg Mountain.
Bio
David Varricchio came to Montana State University in 1989 to study dinosaurs under Jack Horner. He returned to MSU as a professor in the Earth Sciences Department in 2003. His research explores dinosaur paleobiology and Cretaceous paleoecology by focusing on the interface between biologic and geologic processes, blending taphonomy, ichnology and sedimentology within a broader evolutionary context. Past and ongoing research includes work on dinosaur eggs and reproduction, bone beds, the theropod Troodon, dino and horseshoe crab tracks, and sites like Egg Mountain.
