Chris Bennett's Assorted Photographs



Shoveling snow in the Winter of 1960, Cynthia at upper left






Beside myself in the Fall of 1964






Self portrait for photography class at Tulane in Spring of 1978






The KU Vertebrate Paleontology group in Spring of 1986. Seated on the ground at left is Richard Cloutier and at
right is Jim McAllister. Front row from the left: Larry Witmer, Mort Green, Tracy Anderson, Hans-Peter Schultze,
Mike Gottfried, Assefa Mebrate, Gloria Arratia, Larry Martin, and Bob Wilson. Back row: John Chorn, Xiaoming
Wang, Jean Hall, Detlev Thies, Chris Bennett, Brian Foreman, and Jack Neas.




Yep, that's me!


Group photo taken at the Fourth Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems Symposium in Drumheller in 1987. What a great meeting—
the Tyrrell Museum, fine weather, a trip out to a theropod quarry site, and Dave Unwin dancing the Cossack dance on stage
during his talk! There are too many people here to name, but I am in the back row, directly in the middle. Click on me.






Talking to Mike Gottfried (left) and Tracy Ford (right) at the Wednesday evening reception at the 1990 SVP meeting.
I had just returned from leading the Niobrara field trip and was probably indicating the size of a fossil fish that got away!




Yep, that's me!


Group photo at the 1990 SVP meeting in Lawrence, Kansas. Click on me if you can find me—as much fun as "Where's Waldo"!






The KU Vertebrate Paleontology group in Spring of 1993. Front row from the left: Bob Wilson, Orville Bonner, Mort Green,
Gloria Arratia, Hans-Peter Schultze, Larry Martin, Desui Miao, and Dave Frailey. Back row: Beth Rinaldi, Chris Cunningham,
Rodrigo Soler, Francisco Poyato-Ariza, John Chorn, Chris Bennett, and T. J. Meehan.






The KU Vertebrate Paleontology field team working the Jurassic Sundance Formation in May 1995, collecting fossil insects and
fishes and searching in vain for a fossil bird for Larry [not to mention the pterosaurs I wanted!]. From left: Jay Inosanto, Bruce
Rothschild, T.J. Meehan, Gabriel Melo, Byron Alexander, Craig Sundell, Larry Martin, Chris Bennett, and Jong-Deock Lim.






This photo accompanied an article in the 22 July 1995 issue of the newspaper Lawrence Journal-World
as part of the publicity for my book Pterosaurs, The Flying Reptiles. Note the KU Natural History
Museum's really bad composite skeletal reconstruction of Pteranodon in the background.






Talking to David Smith in front of my Arboreal Leaping poster at the Poster Session at the 1995 SVP meeting. Note that the
poster was one of the very first photocopied onto 36" wide rolls of paper at a time when most posters consisted of small
sheets tacked up individually.






Three generations: Chris Bennett (left) with son Daniel Bennett (center) and father Emmett Bennett (right) in December 1997.






Group photo taken at the Pterosaur 2001 Symposium in Toulouse. Just about everybody who was anybody in the world of
pterosaurs was there, and it's amazing that there are that many people interested in and working on pterosaurs. As a result,
there are too many people to name, but I'm in the back row at the right.






This photo accompanied an article in the 6 September 2001 issue of the newspaper La Depeche du Midi as part of the publicity for
the Pterosaur 2001 Symposium. In case your French is as nonexistent as mine, the caption reads: "Francis Duranthon, Kevin Padan,
Peter Wellnhoster, and Chris Benett: these researchers impassion themselves for the pterosaurs which populated the sky of the area.
The wings of this reptile could measure up to 12 meters." Note that Wellnhofer, Padian, and Bennett were misspelled and seem to be
misidentified. Told to look as though we were discussing something important, we were discussing the fare for the upcoming banquet.






Group photo taken at the second meeting [first I attended] of the Stanford-National Geographic Society Pterosaur Replica Project team
(including a bunch of high school students) at Stanford in May 2004 during the planning stage of the project. I can't name everyone, but
the front row left to right starting in middle are Ilan Kroo (with moustache), Peter Heppel, Margot Gerritsen, and then Jim Cunningham
at far right; and back row starting one-third from left are Chris Bennett, John McMasters, John Rubin (NGS video director), student,
Axel Strang, John Conway (with sunglasses), Steve Collie, and then Bob Parks at far right. It was a fun meeting, and it was great
to finally meet John McMasters, but I could already see that the project had bitten off way too much and was doomed to failure.



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