Where everyone sets up

The Atrium

Clubs, museums, and universities with real specimens and the people who found them. Come talk shop.

Club members preparing fossils around a table at a show. The Eastern Missouri Society for Paleontology mark, a crinoid over the outline of Missouri. ‹ ›
Eastern Missouri Society for Paleontology
A small skeleton preserved in pale rock, skull and ribs exposed. The Missouri Dinosaur and Paleontology Center sign against the sky. ‹ ›
Missouri Dinosaur and Paleontology Center
A life-size hadrosaur head model against an evening sky. The Missouri-Ozark Dinosaur Project logo. ‹ ›
Missouri Ozark Dinosaur Project
A group gathered in a car park at the start of a field trip. The Missouri Fossil Hunters logo, a star over the outline of Missouri. ‹ ›
Missouri Fossil Hunters
Researchers gathered around fossil slabs on a lab bench. The Mizzou Geological Sciences logo. ‹ ›
University of Missouri Geological Sciences (May Hall)
A long table of skulls and casts with visitors reaching in to touch them. Visitors handling a timeline of hominin skulls laid out along a table. A student explaining a Deinonychus skull cast to a family at the table. The Mizzou Integrative Anatomy mark, a theropod skull in an oval. ‹ ›
University of Missouri Integrative Anatomy (May Hall)
A fossil hunter holding a brachiopod in an open palm on a rocky outcrop. The Missouri Fossil licence plate, reading paleoheritage.org. The Paleoheritage specimen cabinet mark. ‹ ›
Paleoheritage
A life-size dinosaur model in the museum gallery, head lowered toward the ground. The Sainte Genevieve Museum Learning Center logo. ‹ ›
Sainte Genevieve Museum Learning Center
A mastodon skeleton mounted in the museum, tusks curving forward beneath the skull.
Mastodon State Historic Site
A field crew running across open prairie with a Tyrannosaurus added behind them. The Paleo X logo, a line drawn Tyrannosaurus beside a large letter X. ‹ ›
Adventure 360
A coyote standing at the edge of shallow water in evening light. The Missouri Master Naturalist logo with a dragonfly. ‹ ›
Missouri Master Naturalist
A man grinning and giving a thumbs up beside a split geode lined with quartz crystals. The Hunting Rocks logo, a small figure with a spear facing a giant bird of prey. ‹ ›
Hunting Rocks
A pale limestone block with two holes for eyes and a curved band of grey shell layers for a smile.
Geology Nerds of Western Kentucky
A boy and his mother behind a cabinet of toy dinosaurs on a front lawn, under a hand lettered Dino Trade sign.
Dinosaur Trading PostPhotograph by Kevin A. Roberts
Placeholder drawing by Patrick Weck. Photo coming.
Dino Coloring Activity
Slippy, a cartoon sauropod drawn as a half peeled banana.
St. Louis Prehistoric Life Show
Placeholder drawing by Patrick Weck. Photo coming.
More coming