Enjoy a delicious chicken-fried steak dinner, a silent auction, and an evening of history and discovery in support of the Geronimo Springs Museum. Speaker Gary S. Morgan, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural Histor, will talk about vertebrate fossils from the T or C/Sierra County area, with examples from three geologic time periods. Fossils from the Late Cretaceous period include a partial skull and lower jaw of the recently described giant predatory dinosaur Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis, an ancestor of the famous Irex, and a partial skull of a new large horned dinosaur Sierraceratops turneri, named in honor of Sierra County and Ted Turner, on whose land the dinosaur was found. Other dinosaurs from Sierra County include the last of the giant, long-necked sauropods Alamosaurus and the duck-billed dinosaur. Fossils from the Pliocene include a complete skull of the mastodon Stegomastodon collected near Long Point on the western shore of Elephant Butte Lake about ten years ago. A second skull of Stegomastodon, found nearly 40 years ago in Yapple Canyon, is on display in the Geronimo Springs Museum. Just this past spring, a visitor to Elephant Butte Lake and her son were fishing near the Rock Canyon Marina and found the juvenile lower jaws of a second kind of Pliocene mastod on Rhynchotherium.
Eat at 3pm; presentation starts at 4pm.
Chicken Fried Steak Dinner, Dessert, Coffee/Tea
$25 per person
$45 per couple
$15 children 12 & under
Tickets are available at Geronimo Springs Museum
