richmond fossil-festival

Fossil Sculpture Workshop

A 3 hour workshop where Colin McHenry will explain the science behind the anatomy of a Kronosaurus skull and Paul Stumkat will guide you through the process of making the skull, which can then be turned into functional or scientific art.

DATES: Saturday 1st May 2010 at 9.00am & Sunday 2nd May 2010 at 1.00pm

Where: Kronosaurus Korner, Goldring Street Richmond

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BRING: Work clothes & covered in footwear

COST: $55.00 per person

WHAT WE SUPPLY: All sculpture equipment & limestone

Limited Spaces – booking ahead recommended

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Fossil Preparation Workshops

1 ½ hour workshops which includes a tour of Kronosaurus Korner.

When: Friday 30th April - 9am – 4:30pm  1 ½ hour workshops – limited space only 6 participants per workshop.

Where: Kronosaurus Korner, Goldring Street Richmond

Registration: Pre- booking recommended

Cost:   $18 per person

Fossil hunters will be taught how to clean, prepare and display their fossil as a museum professional would. Workshop students are encourage to go fossil hunting at the public site prior to the workshop. If you have not found a suitable fossil KK will supply you with one. Direction available from KK information centre.

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Kids Dinosaur Cartoon Workshops

An interactive session for kids with Anthony Pascoe talented Illustrator and Caricaturist brought up from Victoria.   Approx 45 minutes per session includes a tour of Kronosaurus Korner and participation in drawing prehistoric creatures.  Keep a look out for Anthony at the Racecourse on Saturday afternoon where he will be drawing prehistoric caricaturist face drawing.

Where: Kronosaurus Korner

What you need to bring: BYO food or drinks or cafe open

When: 9am – 4pm Thursday 29th & Friday 30th April & 9am – 11:30am Saturday 1 May & Sunday 2nd May

Cost: $5 per child (approx 45 minute sessions)

Bookings Essential – call 1300 Kronok

Kronosaurus Korner

Kronosaurus Korner was designed to display local fossils from the Cretaceous Inland Sea that covered a large section of Queensland 120 million years ago.  ½ hour tours  are available at one $8pp on Thursday and Monday between 10am – 2pm.

The inland sea fluctuated in relation to global changes of sea levels and local earth movements for nearly 25 million years and reached its maximum extent 112 million years ago. Non-marine conditions took over 97.5 million years ago and continue to the present day.

Today Richmond is the geographical centre of where the Cretaceous Inland Sea once was, and the fossils that are found prolifically around Richmond are the remains of animals that lived and died in the sea. The catalyst for the building of Kronosaurus Korner was the discovery of the Richmond pliosaur on a property, Marathon Station, near Richmond in 1989.

The 100 million-year old pliosaur was recognised by palaeontologists as the prime example of its type of vertebrae fossil in the world. Three months later a rare minmi paravertebrae was found nearby.

To see some amazing fossils go to www.kronosuaruskorner.com.au