One-Day dig at the site we call Mary Anning (near Inverloch)

 

A beautiful day to be on the beach

Stunning view from site

Nick found this tooth. Corrie also found a tooth, but the rest of us found little.

Lesley, John and Alan look at rocks

Tim Flannery on monotremes

Australian Museum interviews Tim Flannery about the origin of monotremes, including a new reconstruction of our vey own Teinolophos trusleri.

Read it here: https://australian.museum/blog/amri-news/creatures-great-and-small-origins-of-monotremes-revealed/

The second Corriebaatar specimen

Today, the second specime of Corriebattar marywaltersae was published, which strengthens the evidence for Corriebaatar as the oldest currently known cimolodontan.

Congratulations to Rich et al.

Read the paper here: Second specimen of <em>Corriebaatar marywaltersae</em> from the Lower Cretaceous of Australia confirms its multituberculate affinities - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (pan.pl)

Review of Monotreme evolution

A new review of monotreme evolution including material from our sites was published overnight in Alcheringa.

Read it here: Full article: A review of monotreme (Monotremata) evolution (tandfonline.com)

Mary Anning

Stunningly perfect weather yesterday for a day sampling and prospecting at the site we call Mary Anning near the RACV club. Not a lot of bones found (the ones pictured were all previous finds by Melissa that we removed), but there was rock and ocean and sea air.

A large piece of turtle plastron
- and yes, we cut through it!

A pretty spongy bone

A small shaft - metatarsal???

Lesley and Doris confer
as Dean breaks rock

Some video-documenters had
a new-fangled printing camera

Mary heads offshore past
Dean towards Tom

What a view!

Mary and Doris confer

Doris heads offshore

Honey locality

 A beautiful sunny (if slightly windy) day at the Honey Locality, where a handful of Weekend Warrios extracted a few bones and sampled a couple of promising looking rocks.

The view from site

Dreamers spread out over the shore platform

Winton Crocodile ate a little ornithopod like ours

 'It's just extrodinary': Ancient crocodile's last meal may have been a dinosaur - ABC News    

Congrats to Matt White and colleagues.

Abdominal contents reveal Cretaceous crocodyliforms ate dinosaurs - ScienceDirect

Alan and Nicole in The Age

 Couple’s share their secret to lasting love (theage.com.au)