Our Upcoming Speaker
Note: Since October 2022, we have returned to in-person meetings at the Birmingham Zoo using a hybrid Zoom-In Person format with the in-person meeting at the Lodge at the Birmingham Zoo
MONDAY APRIL 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM Central Time USA
​Title: "What's Happening at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site"
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Speaker: Andrew Milner, Lead Paleontologist at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site in Utah
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Abstract:
​The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site (SGDS) is a latest Triassic-earliest Jurassic (~201.5-200 MYA) paleontological locality situated within the City of St. George in southwestern Utah. Dr. Sheldon Johnson discovered the site on his property in February 2000, finding abundant and well-preserved dinosaur tracks occurring on multiple stratigraphic horizons. Currently, 27 layers of footprints have been identified within marginal lake deposits of the Moeanve Formation. The site preserves a variety of plant and invertebrate body fossils, as well as a high diversity of fish species (sharks, lungfish, coelacanths, semionotids, palaeoniscoids) and tetrapods (amphibians, crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs?, dinosaurs, synapsids). The presenter will discuss the global significance of SGDS, its geology and paleontology, along with the history and development of the museum and surrounding properties. One such property, named the Substation Quarry, became famous in March-April last year, and today the site is producing significant discoveries every week!
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About the Speaker:
​Andrew R. C. Milner is the Lead Paleontologist at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site (SGDS) in southwest Utah. He has been with the SGDS since its discovery. Andrew worked for the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Canada, on Late Pleistocene Champlain Sea fossils, and for the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, Ontario) at the famous Cambrian Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Andrew has published more than 70 scientific papers on a wide variety of topics in ichnology, paleontology, and geology. In November, 2025, Andrew was awarded the Morris F. Skinner Award by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology for his outstanding and sustained contributions to scientific knowledge through the making of important collections of fossil vertebrates, and encouraging and training others to do the same. (https://www.nps.gov/articles/meetapaleontologist-alanmilner.htm)
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