The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc.

Scientists, including Friends president Steven W. Veatch, will be continuing research on the Ice Age mammoth discovered at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in 2002. Veatch, who has an M.S. in geology from Emporia State University, presented a paper on the Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in […]

Paleontology of the Upper Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado, a Geological Society of America special paper, is now available from the GSA Bookstore. This volume collects 11 papers on research, resource management, and history at the Fossil Beds.

The ancestors of these modern marine diatoms coexisted with the dinosaurs. Photo Credit: Dr. Neil Sullivan, University of Southern California/NOAA
University of Colorado at Boulder graduate student Mary Ellen Benson, M.S., gave a talk about her doctoral research at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (UCM) on February 7.
Benson’s talk, titled “Exceptional Diversity of […]

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument’s scientific database is back
up at planning.nps.gov/flfo/. Web users can search for important Florissant specimens in museum collections around the world and view associated data and photographs.
The park has received a Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit (CESU) grant, in conjunction with the University of Colorado at Boulder, to update and expand […]

A publication date has been set for the Geological Society of America Special Paper on Florissant, a collection of papers about scientific research, education, and resource management at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. The volume is edited by park paleontologist Dr. Herbert W. Meyer and University of Colorado Museum of Natural History professor and […]