San Joaquin Valley Town Hall

celbrating our 75th Year.

Fossil Threads in the Web of Life


february
Scott Sampson


Whats 65 Million Years old and brand spanking new? a teenage utahceratops! come to the Saroyan, armted with your best donsaur roar, when Scott Sampson,Research Curator at the Utah Musem O Nautral History, step to the podium. Sampson's sesearch as focused on the ecology and evolution of late Cretatceaous dinosaurs and he has conducted fieldwork in a number of countries in Africa.




Scott Sampson is a Canadian-born paleontologist who recieved his Ph.D. in zoology from the Uniiversity of Toronito. His doctoral work focused on two new species of ceratospids (horned dinosaurs) from the Lare Creataceous of Montana, as well as the grawth and function of certospsid horns and frills.

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