BOB and SUE REYNOLDS
FOSSILS AND MORE
Bob's E-Mail- bobr120@sbcglobal.net
SCHEDULE FOR 2018
Updated: May 21, 2018
January 2nd to 31st, Bill Library, Colonel Ledyard
Hwy, Ledyard, CT 06339, display case. Minerals and fossils
January 2nd to 31st, Bill Memorial Library, 240 Monument St., Groton, CT 06340, Minerals and fossils
February 1 to Saturday March 3, Meriden Public Library, 3 display cases.
February 17th, Saturday 10 am to 12 pm, with snow
date of February 24th. Meriden Public Library, Saturday meet and greet.
February 20, Tuesday, Meriden Public Library, Talk for children's department in the Griffin room from 2-3.
February 21st, Wednesday, Dinosaurs for Nursery Schools, 9:30 Head Start, 10:00 Little Learners, Groton.
February 21, 22, 23,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Claude Chester School, Groton, 11:15 – 12:15, 1:30 – 3:00, 10/group/2
groups at a time.
March 3 & 4, Saturday & Sunday, LMSCC Show, Meriden.
March 23, Friday, Goodwin School in Old Saybrook annual Science Day.
Tuesday, April 3rd, Tuesday Cub Scouts, Clinton Congregational Church, 6:39 pm
April 7 & 8, Saturday and Sunday,New Haven Mineral Club Show, Orange Ct.
April 7, Saturday Science Olympiad, UCONN,
Chem. Building, 55 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, Ct. Room 208
April 21, Saturday, Science Olympiad, Robbins Middle School, 20 Wolf Pit Road, Farmington Ct. 06032
April 26, Thursday, Science and Math Night at SB
Butler elementary school, 6:30 – 8:30 PM (with setup from 5 PM-on)
April 29, Sunday, 1-5 pm, rock/mineral presentation North Haven Fair promoting Agriculture and 4-H
May 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th, Fridays, Griswold
Youth and Family Services, After school program 2:30 – 4:30 pm at the
Griswold Middle School.
May 11, 12, 13
Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
CONNJAM, Boy Scouts, Orange Fairgrounds, Orange Center Rd, Orange, Ct
May 12, Saturday Scott Heath, Barnes Nature
Center, 175 Shrub Rd, Bristol, CT 06010, Rocks for All Ages type of
event
June 26, Friday 1:00 pm, Indian Artifacts, Nancy Najarian, Otis Library, Norwich,
July 1 Sunday Display cabinet until July 28th at Groton Public Library ~ 52 Newtown Road, Groton, CT 06340
860-441-6750 www.grotonpl.org
July 10, Tuesday 1:00 pm, Rocks & Minerals, Otis Library, Norwich, Youth Services, 1-2 PM
July 19 Thursday Levi Cole Library, Middlefield, 11:00 am, Dinosaurs.
July 28 Saturday, Anne Campbell, Librarian II, Groton Public Library ~ 52 Newtown Road, Groton, CT 06340
860-441-6750 www.grotonpl.org
Aug 3,4,5 Friday, Saturday and Sunday, - 4-H Fair, Durham fairground.
August 13-17, Indian Rock Camp Minerals, 2:30-3; 30 pm, 501 Wolcott Road, Bristol, CT 06010
August 17 – 20, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Wolcott Country Fair, 245 Wolcott Road, Wolcott, CT 06716
September
27-30, Thursday to Sunday, Sept. Durham Fair, 24 Town House Rd, Durham
Ct.
September 29 & 30,
Saturday and Sunday Hammonasset Festival 10 AM to 7 PM on Saturday and 10 AM to 5 PM on
Sunday Guilford Fairgrounds in Guilford.
Fossil Presentation Outline
with
Geologic Eras
Precambrian 4.567 BYA to 570 MYA ~84% of the history of life.
1. Meteorite – 4.567 BYA
a. Traveled in our solar system since its
beginning.
b. Fell in South America 4000 to 5000 Years
ago.
2. Cyanobacteria – 3.5 BYA to the present
a. Known today as “pond scum”.
b. Gave us the oxygen we breathe.
3. Stromatolites – 3.5 BYA to the present
a. A form of cyanobacteria.
4. Banded Iron – 3.8 to 1.7 BYA
a. Cyanobacteria gave oxygen to the water and
caused iron to precipitate out of the water into layers.
Paleozoic 570 MYA to 25 MYA ~10% of the history of life.
5. Trilobites – 570 to 230 MYA
a. Three-lobed, hard shelled, segmented
creatures.
b. One of the earliest forms of complex life.
6. Crinoids – 530 MYA to the present
a. Ocean invertebrate animal.
b. Known today as “Sea Lillie’s”.
c. Get their food by extending their arms and
eating plankton or waste matter.
7. Coral – 410 MYA to the present.
a. Polyps.
b. Limestone skeleton.
c. Bleached coral.
8. Lepidodendron – 360 to 286 MYA
a. Carboniferous period, Oxygen~40%,
Temperature~68f.
b. Tree grew to more than 130 feet tall, with
trunk diameter 6 feet or more in diameter.
9. Ammonites – 240 to 65 MYA
a. Squid-like animals.
b. Chambered hard shells.
Mesozoic 225 MYA to 65 MYA 4% of the history of life.
10. Dinosaurs – 231.4 to 66 MYA.
a. Some dinosaurs evolved into birds.
b. Most dinosaurs went extinct.
Cenozoic 65 MYA to the Present, ~2% of the history of life.
11. Knightia, Diplomystus, Priscacara Fish, and Muscidea Flies,
a. 56 to 34 million years ago,
Green River Formation
12. Woolly Rhinoceros 350 to 10 KYA.
a. herbivore
13. Mammoth – 5 MYA to 10 KYA.
a. Herbivore
b. Grazed on grasses
14. Mastodon 3.75MYA to 11KYA
a. Herbivore
b. Browsed on brush
