Days 13 and 14: Trickling in… 

 

Nicole here found her first dinosaur fossil yesterday! It's a piece of a hadrosaur. Her brother Ethan joins us as well, as he plans to study paleontology when he starts college this year.

Our team member Logan found a bone on the surface yesterday evening. At first it appeared to have been mostly destroyed by the elements. Upon excavation, though, we found the underside of the fossil, which had never seen the light of day, to be quite well preserved. It appears to be a limb of some kind, though exactly which bone and which animal it pertains to is unknown. We'll collect this bone today by creating a plaster jacket for it.

Last wednesday we found another site which produced numerous hone fragments on the surface and collected a dinosaur phalanx (toe bone, singular for phalanges) and large vertebra.

We've also been doing some archaeology of paleontology! By that I mean we found one of Barnum Brown's original 1937 quarries! More to come...