UCMP’s summer adventures (cont.)

Formation on the ranch of Dan and Lila Redding, near the Canadian border, where they collected two hadrosaur skeletons. One morning, while prospecting in a new area of extensive badlands, the dome of a Stegoceras (also known as a pachycephalosaur or “dome-headed” dinosaur) was found by one of the crewmembers. The partial skull was donated by the landowner to UCMP and catalogued into our collections.

And abroad...
Kevin Padian spent a month as a Visiting Professor at the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Much of his work was spent with Phillippe Taquet on several projects involving dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and the history of science. They spent most of their time in the Central Library reading

through Cuvier’s books, papers, and letters for insight into how he developed his views on pterosaurs. What emerged, though, was a surprising picture of how Cuvier developed the basis of his philosophy of vertebrate paleontology. This is the subject of an upcoming paper. Kevin also had the opportunity to spend some time with his old friend Jean-Michel Mazin in Poitiers and they have two new findings on the trackways of pterosaurs that will surprise a lot of people—stay tuned!
Pat Holroyd spent much of the summer working with the newly acquired UC Riverside collection (see the August 2003 UCMP News), standardizing their database with the UCMP database and checking out all the wonderful fossils it contains. In August, she traveled to the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels to study early Eocene mammals and turtles. Many animals in these 55 million-year-old