SALTILLO, COAHUILA, MEXICO
AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2009 

The Government of Coahuila State, Mexico, through the Secretaría de Educación y Cultura and the Museo del Desierto, with the support of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, through the Instituto de Geología, and the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, are pleased to host the FIFTH INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON MESOZOIC FISHES. The international meeting will be hosted at the “Museo del Desierto,” Saltillo City, Coahuila State, Northern Mexico.  

Scientific sessions will take place from August 31 to September 3, 2009, at the Museo del Desierto. We plan to have a short visit to some of the fossil localities in the Saltillo region on September 4. In addition, we will offer two excursions to the most important Mexican fossil fish localities: 1) the Tlayúa quarry in Tepexi de Rodríguez, Puebla (some days before the scientific sessions), and 2) Vallecillos, Nuevo León (after the scientific sessions). The first excursion will also include a visit to the paleoichthyological Mexican collections housed in the Colección Nacional de Paleontología at México City (see below).

We look forward to offering you a nice environment during the Fifth Mesozoic Fishes Meeting in northern Mexico, and to share all together our knowledge of diversity and evolutionary patterns of all kind of Mesozoic fishes, surrounded by the famous Mexican hospitality. We also hope you will enjoy some of our cultural background (the region is well known because of its archaeological as well as paleontological sites), and the characteristic nature of Coahuila’s desert. 

Contact 
Rosario Gómez
grosariomesozoicfishes@yahoo.com