The holiday season is here, and DINOSOUNDS will be aired on "What a Great Idea" show, in a regional airing- Kansas City, Mo (Cable channel 16) The following times: Wednesday, 12/6/06 - 3:30 pm Thursday, 12/7/06 - 4:00 pm Monday, 12/11/06 - 3:30 pm
Even though you're not necessarily in Kansas City, Please order Dinosounds now for a holiday gift- Order from this link, and support us on GreatIdea.tv, and get a free fossil!
At the Getty Museum, I performed as the "Dino-dude" -
extreme lead guitarist of The Getty Boys, a rock band made of rogue scientists.
The drummer, Julio Del Hoyo, wore the powerful "Dino-guy" hat.
Yes, there was Jamming.
100 East Drachman Street Tucson, AZ 792-2884 for questions or recorded directions
Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th
Dinosounds with Ron Schmidtling! Our favorite palenotologist is back and better than ever. listen to great music that gets your toes tapping while you learn more about prehistoric times! All with a slide show and hand drawn art durng each performance.
Shows Sat. 11am & 1pm & 3pm
Sun. 1pm & 3pm
Now it is time to learn all about herbivores! check out those gentle giants of way back when and what we know about them today.
Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd
Dinosounds with Ron Schmidtling! *See above listing for information and show times.
Helicoplacoid – a very unusual spiral echinoderm from the Cambrian age. It was a strange echinoderm, found in only a few places in the world. The site where they are found is at 7,000 feet elevation, near the famous bristlecone pine forests. The last time I went to the site, my cousin Terry and I got covered in snow. To view a close-up of the painting in
Tribrachidium – this creature superficially resembles an edrioasteroid, though it had no calcareous plates. A report by some of my colleagues – Kevin Peterson and Whitey Haggedorn – described some of these early organisms as fungi, not animals. It’s an interesting study...
Gogia
– a very unusual echinoderm from the Cambrian, sung about in “Cambrian
Blues”. It looked like a strange onion on the seabed. To view the
paintings in the Dinosounds book, go to the gallery -
pteridinium
– a very strange Vendian organism. I painted this Ediacaran fossil
purple, simply from an aesthetic standpoint. You can see it in the
gallery –
Below
is an actual fossil of Pteridinium. It’s a strange three-dimensional
creature that probably lived within sand of a shallow ocean. This image
is from the Humbolt website:
Maiasaura is a wonderful dinosaur that has ornithischian hips. There is a lot of information on Maiasaura, since Jack Horner helped discover an entire fossilized herd of the dinosaurs. You can see a close-up version of a male Maiasaura in the gallery-