Be sure to renew your Fossil Permits! Never Dig into the River banks! Collection of Artifacts is Illegal on Florida state owned land!

President's Message

2025-2026 Season

June 6 - TBFC’s End of the Season Dinner

TBFC’s annual, end of the season, informal dinner and get together is coming in June! It doesn’t matter if you’ve been a member of TBFC for ten years or ten minutes, everyone’s invited. The dinner is a great opportunity for fossil friends, old and new, to get together for a final evening of fun and fossil tales as we wrap up the 2025-2026 season (and a scholarship presentation, fossil auction, and some door prizes thrown in for good measure). If you have anything you’d like to donate to the auction, just bring it along to the dinner. This is a great event for the entire family and cheap too. We’ll cater spaghetti, pizza, wings, salads, dessert and drinks. The cost is just $8 per person which makes for an inexpensive family outing.

TBFC’s End of the Season Dinner will be held on June 6 at the American Postal Workers Union Hall, 4409 West Alva Street, Tampa Florida 33614 at 6PM. This is a central location in Tampa, about a mile from Raymond James Stadium.

RSVP is not required, just show up and pay at the door. But, if you do know in advance that you will be attending, please be sure to click on the “Going” button on the Facebook event. This will help a lot with knowing how much food to have on hand when everyone arrives. Don’t miss it! This really, really, is the last event of the season! Don’t give up on paleo for the summer though. Stay connected with many of our fossil friends on our Facebook page. As long as the water remains safe there will be lots of folks screenwashing, SCUBA diving, and canoeing the banks, beaches, bays, rivers and creeks looking for fossils. Many of these folks posting about their adventures on Facebook would be glad to take you along. Just ask!

Closed for Summer

As I close this edition of the Tampa Bay Fossil Chronicles, our season comes to an end for this publication. The Tampa Bay Fossil Club will take a brief and much needed break. With the exception of the TBFC End of Season Dinner, there will be no official activities during the months of June, July and August.

I have reported to you many times in the past, it is an honor and a privilege to serve and represent the Tampa Bay Fossil Club, its many fine members, and the good work we all do in the paleo community.

I want to thank the great support behind me in the Officers, Directors, and many of you members who volunteer to help TBFC excel to the exceptional level it has in both the public and scientific communities. Without all of you, none of what TBFC accomplishes each season would be possible.

Be good to one another and stay safe out there.

Good Hunting,

Please be very cautious while venturing out into the rivers and creeks. There’s nothing in those rivers worth dying for.

Missed a meeting or just want to watch it again? You can view our past meeting recordings or live streams in the playlist below (Also found in the About section):

New Members! - Over the last few meetings, we’ve been thrilled to welcome an increasing number of new members. It’s genuinely exciting to see fresh faces in the crowd, and we look forward to getting to know each of you, both at our meetings and out in the field. If you’re new to TBFC, thank you for choosing to join us. You are now part of a community of almost 600 fossil enthusiasts who share a passion for discovery, science, and Florida’s rich prehistoric past.

We meet monthly (except July and August), typically on the first Saturday. Schedule updates to the website will be made, as occasional schedule changes do occur. Field trips are also listed here and discussed at each meeting. We encourage you to attend regularly and join us afterward for a late dinner, where the conversation continues, usually about fossils, but not always, until the restaurant finally asks us to leave.