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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3, 2025 

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Talk Title: The Madagascar Paleontology Project: Late Cretaceous Game-Changers

Speaker: Dr. David Krause, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Madagascar is one of the very poorest countries in the world but is rich in fossils, including some of the world's most spectacular and significant: snaggle-toothed and dome-headed dinosaurs, vegetarian pug-nosed crocodiles, basketball-sized armored frogs, and mammals with swiss-cheese skulls. I will highlight some of these fantastic discoveries from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar made over the course of the last 33 years and put them into context of the plate tectonic and biogeographic history of Madagascar, but also of Gondwana as a whole. Given the audience, I will also emphasize various aspects of the stratigraphy, sedimentology, and taphonomy of our field areas.

Biography:

Dr. David Krause is Senior Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science; Emeritus Distinguished Service Professor at Stony Brook University; Founder and Executive Director of the Madagascar Ankizy Fund; former Editor of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology; and former President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Born and raised on a remote cattle ranch in Alberta, Canada, Dr. Krause received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Alberta and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Alberta in 2010, an honorary doctorate from The University of Antananarivo (Madagascar) in 2012, and the Romer-Simpson Medal from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in 2023 (the society's highest award). Dr. Krause is a 50-year veteran of field research in Canada, the United States, Pakistan, India, and Madagascar and has published over 135 peer-reviewed research articles and edited four monographic volumes.

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Hybrid luncheon schedule:

• 11:15am: In-person check-in opens
• 11:30: Lunch service begins
• 12:00pm: Online event opens
• 12:15pm: Talk begins
• 1:00pm: Talk/Q&A session ends; Online event closes

Hybrid Luncheon costs:

• Member Lunch: $35
• Non-Member Lunch: $40
• Walk-in without Lunch: $15
• Member Online: $10
• Non-member Online: $20
• Student online: Free

Refund policy:

If you need to cancel an in-person lunch registration for any reason, you must do so by 4:00pm on the Thursday before the Wednesday luncheon. Refunds will not be available after 4:00pm on the Thursday before the luncheon. If you are unable to attend, your luncheon registration is transferable to another RMAG member, or if you are a non-member your registration is transferable to whomever you wish. Refunds will not be issued for online talk registrations.

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