MAPS Expo Digests
Expo Digests since 2009 which are no longer in print are now available as free PDF files.
Clickable links for Expo Digests 2009-2013 PDFs are below.
Paper copies of Expo Digests from 2014-17 are still available for purchase to the general public.
To purchase hard copies of any Digests, please send a list of which ones you would like, and a check for $7.50 per copy to:
Jim Preslicka
1439 Plum Street
Iowa City, IA
52240
- 2017 - The Silurian, 126 Pages
Paper copies are available, at $7.50 each.
A Brief Introduction to the Silurian Period - John A Catalani
The Thornton Silurian Reef - Thomas Williams
A New Trilobite from the Bob? - Rick Poropat and John Stade
Silurian Trilobites from Southern Illinois and Missouri - Gerald Kloc
The Trilobites of Caleb Quarry - Michael Lask
On the Trail of the Elusive Eurypterids - James G Cox, PHD
Macrofossils of the Silurian Massie (Osgood) Shale of Southeast Indiana - Don Bissett
Eucalyptocrinites -- Silurian Crinoid from the Waldron - Thomas Williams
The Silurian Blastoid Genus Troosticrinus - Alex Fabian
Silurian Crinoids of Anticosti Island, Quebec - David Clark
Fossil Echinoderms of the Middle Silurian in North America: An Age of Crinoids and 'Anachronistic' Faunas
- Carlton E Brett and James Thomka
- 2016 - The Mesozoic, 74 Pages
Paper copies are available, at $7.50 each.
A Century and a Half of Dinosaur Discoveries in Alberta - Philip J Currie
Hadrosaur Footprint Recovered from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana - Rick Poropat and Carl Campbell
Rise and Fall of Reef Forming Rudist Clams - Thomas C Williams
Mesozoic Ammonoids: The Beginning and the End - John A Catalani
Uintacrinus: Floater or Bottom Dweller - Thomas C Williams
The Mesozoic of Iowa - Robert Charles Wolf
Implications of the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary in Southeastern Missouri - Rick Poropat
- 2015 - The Cenozoic, 74 Pages
Paper copies are available, at $7.50 each.
The Fossil Fish of Green River - Lance Grande
Little Fossil Fish All Look the Same, or How to Successfully Identify Green River Herrings - Ted Hermann
Articulate Crinoids of the Cenozoic - Thomas Williams
Cenozoic Nautiloids - John A Catalani
The McAbee Fossil Beds Heritage Site - Rick Poropat
Florida's Plio-Pleistocene and the Caloosahatchee Formation of South Florida - Irene Broede
Detailed Stratigraphy of a Classic Plio-Pleistocene Marine Expoasure in Sarasota, Florida - Robert C Frey
- 2014 - The Mississippian, 102 Pages
Paper copies are available, at $7.50 each.
Introduction to the Mississippian of North America - Chris Cozart
Faunal Turnover During the Age of Crinoids - Forest J Gahn
Phanocrinus Specimen - Thomas Williams
Zeacrinites - Thomas Williams
Blastoids of the Osagean Burlington Limestone and Closely Allied Formations - Alex Fabian
Floraville: A Classic Mississippian Locality - Rick Poropat
The Mississippian Fort Payne Formation - John A Catalani
Xenacanthimorph Teeth from the Haney Limestone (Mississippian, Chesterian) of Southern Illinois - David Carlson
Fossils of the Des Moines River in Humboldt, Iowa - Merla Ayres
The Land That Fossils Built - Clay Chesney
- 2013 - The Devonian (10.5MB PDF File)
A Brief Introduction to the Devonian Period - John A Catalani
Amonoids from the Devonian of Iowa - James E Preslicka, Charles R Newsom, & Thomas E Blume
Fossil Lagerstatten of New York, II. The Cephalopods of the Cherry Valley Limestone - Thomas E Whiteley and Gerald J Kloc
On the Trail of Devonian Goniatite Cephalopods in New York State - William Kirchgasser
Heliophyllum, New York's Classic Devonian Coral - James E Sorauf and William A Oliver, Jr.
Calcocrinoids of the Devonian and Early Mississippian - Thomas Williams
Interaction among Devonain Sea Life Preserved in the Jeffersonville and Sellersburg Limestone, Clark County,
Indiana and Jefferson and Oldham Counties, Kentucky - Alan Goldstein
Long Before Cayuga's Waters: The Spectacular Devonian Geology and Paleontology of the Ithaca, New York Region -
Stephanie Sang, Warren D Allmon, and Carlton E Brett
Devonian Outliers of the Ozarks of Missouri - Bruce L Stinchcomb
The Mercellus Shale: Why Devonian Geology Matters Today - Kelly E Cronin
- 2012 - The Pennsylvanian (13.1MB PDF File)
Introduction to the Pennsylvanian of North America - Chris Cozart
Paleontology of a Late Pennsylvanian Quarry: Part 1 - Stratigraphy - David Carlson
Paleontology of a Late Pennsylvanian Quarry: Part 2 - Gastropods - David Carlson
Pennsylvanian Nautiloids of the Midcontinent - John A Catalani
Pennsylvanian Crinoids of Illinois - Thomas Williams
Notable Pennsylvanian Localities and Paleobiotas in Knox and Peoria Counties, Illinois - Merrill W Foster
Pennsylvanian Fossils from McCoy, Colorado - Dennis Gertenbach and Steven Reinhold
Additions to the Pennsylvanian Fossils of North Texas at Lake Bridgeport - John McLeod and Mark McKinzie
A Window into a Catastophic Coal Age Flood Event: The Mazonian Fossil Bonanza - Charles Shabica and Gordon C Baird
The Concretion Conundrum: Current Research at Mazon Creek - David Dolak and Victoria McCoy
The Monster from Illinois - John A Catalani
Horseshoe Crabs and their Relatives in the Pennsylvanian of the Midcontinent - Scott McKenzie
An Early Pennsylvanian Mystery - Robert Charles Wolf
- 2011 - The Cretaceous (8.0MB PDF File)
A Stratigraphic reappraisal of the Cretaceous Exposure at Black Powder Hollow, Alexander Co, Illinois - David Carlson
The Ardeola, Missouri Cretacous locality - Bruce L Stinchcomb
Uintacrinus, Floater or Bottom Dweller - Thomas C Williams
Nautiloids v Ammonoids: Winners and Losers - John A Catalani
Mesozoic coleoids: Fossil squids and cuttlefish - Scott McKenzie
Turtles of the Cretaceous Period - David A Hutchison
Mosasaurs of the Pierre Seaway - Thomas C Williams
Dragons of Kansas: the Mosasaurs of the Smoky Hill Chalk - Michael T Payne
Giant Cretaceous Pterosaurs in the Air and on the Ground - John A Catalani
Fifteen Years of Observations of an Archaeologist in the Hell Creek - Steven Nicklas
A Dinosaur Tail - Rob Sula
The Nightmare Before the Cenozoic - Scott McKenzie
- 2010 - The Ordovician (8.2MB PDF File)
The Ordovician - An Introduction - John A. Catalani
Size Does Matter - The Giant Nautiloids of the Arctic Ordovician
Fauna - Robert C. Frey
Late Ordovician Trilobites from the Upper Mississippian Valley - Robert E. Sloan
Research in the Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician) Through Space and Time - Katherine V. Bulinski
The Platteville Molluscan Fauna - John A. Catalani
Always Serious About Cephalopods - James E. Preslicka
Receptaculids the Forgotten Reef Builder - Thomas C. Williams
Fossils of the Van Buren Formation and the Cambrian - Ordovician Boundary of Missouri - Bruce L. Stinchcomb
Ordovician Trilobite with Possible Calcified Muscles - Scott McKenzie
- 2009 - Crinoids (4.1MB PDF File)
Introduction to Crinoids - Chris Cozart
These are Not the Crinoids Your Daddy Knew - William I. Ausich
150 Years of Collecting Crinoids at the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository - Tiffany Adrain
A Crinoid Bank in the Mississippian of Eastern North America - Tom Williams
Cambrian Crinoids - Bruce Stinchcomb
Crinoid Collecting in the Burlington Limestone - Forest J Gahn
