Days 14 and 15: More!

 

The ceaseless search continues. Yesterday we succeeded in retrieving a large dinosaur limb bone from the top of a tall cliff. Just around the corner we discovered another site containing multiple bones embedded ins ide of a very rough matrix. Despite the abysmal bone quality the fossil is significant for its stratigraphic position. It appears to be cropping out just a few meters above the bottom of the Almond Formation, much lower in section than our previous discoveries. It may therefore be 73 million years old, significantly older than our own or Barnum Brown's specimens. We do not know what bones the new specimen consists of, nor what animal they pertain to. Only careful excavation will reveal the answer. That answer, though, will not be revealed tomorrow. The weather looks abysmal, so tomorrow will be a lazy day spent in camp or town.