Fossil Fest is indoors.

• Teachers: Extra Credit for Your Students!
• Homeschool Educators: Great Science Learning Opportunity!
• Scouts: Presentations can focus on badge requirements.
• Youth Groups: Plan a great trip to learn about fossils.
• School / Scout / Youth Groups of 10 or more? Sign up here.

Activities include:

• Show Spotlight: Trilobites and the Cambrian
• Speakers (both days):
  • TBD
• BYOF: Bring Your Own Fossil for Fossil Identification
• "Paleo Passport" educational quest for students
• Exhibits: See what amateur fossil collectors find in Texas
• Fossil collections: Start yours at the Wheel of Fossils and Fossil Darts
• Get your Christmas shopping done early! Vendors with fossils, books, art, jewelry, toys and more
• Hourly and Grand Door Prizes

Show Hours

Day	Date	Time
Saturday	November 1	9:00am to 5:00pm
Sunday	November 2	9:00am to 5:00pm

Admission:

$3/adult, $2/child (6-12), children under 6 free.
Special rates may apply for school, scout and youth groups. Inquiries can be made here.

Contacts:

Show Chair : showchairaustinpaleo.org
Webmaster : webmasteraustinpaleo.org

Location:

Old Settler's Heritage Association (inside)   
Next to the Dell Diamond on US Highway 79, Round Rock, TX 3 miles east of IH-35. See map below.

 

Grand Door Prizes, 2025

Every adult paid admission includes a raffle ticket for these prizes and additional ones may be purchased. The drawing takes place at the end of the show and you do not need to be present to win.

   

First. Kettnapsis williamsi. Lower Devonian age, Haragan formation. Coal County, OK. A cool, spiny trilobite, collected and prepared by Robert "Bob" Carroll, famous for Black Cat Mountain trilobites. Dimensions: 1.1 x 1.1 inches.

 

Second. Fragiscutum glebalis. Silurian age. Coal County, OK. Collected and prepared by Robert "Bob" Carroll, famous for Black Cat Mountain trilobites. Dimensions: 1.1 x .7 inches.