Friday 27 February 2009
Week 4 crew
It's hard to believe that the dig is almost over. Many thanks to all the crews over the last four weeks, including this happy bunch.
Thursday 26 February 2009
Last day on site
An early morning start for our last day at the site. |
We try out a new venturi. It works pretty well |
but John gets quite wet. |
We clean the site carefully. |
We draw chalk marks |
on the layer boundaries so that Nick can map them. |
Monday 23 February 2009
A hot Monday with few fossils
Sunday 22 February 2009
Seaweed
We are still looking for a really creative way to rid our hole of the vast amounts of seaweed that accumulates each night. We try raking and scooping and bucketing and wheelbarrowing.
Saturday 21 February 2009
Equal opportunity digging
This week the girls got to play with the boys' toys.
Here Nick is instructing Lisa and Cate on how to place the plugs and feathers. |
Then Lisa and Cate got to work. |
Lisa then got to play with the big toy - the electric drill/jack hammer |
Super woman Anouska really got into the spirit. What an action shot! |
Mareika got "bone of the day" for this beautiful theropod tooth. |
Thursday 19 February 2009
Hurray - a mammal jaw at last!
After nearly two and a half weeks the first mammal jaw for the season turned up!
Found by our very lovely Jacqui Tumney, it is a handsome specimen with at least 7 teeth.
David Pickering (Museum Victoria's Collections Manager) thinks it could be an Ausktribosphenos nyktos. More will be revealed after further preparation at the Museum.
Well done Jacqui.
Wednesday 18 February 2009
Friends Day and Week 3
Week 3 crew are a very happy bunch. Seen here in the back garden of the "dig" house in Inverloch. |
Mareike Schmidt, arrived from cold, wintry Germany to warm, sunny Inverloch. No wonder she is smiling |
Mike, Astrid and Sue are very proud of the large piece of fossil layer they just removed. |
This is one of the largest bones found at the site (the two brown bits). Approximately 25cms in length, we are not yet sure what sort of bone it is. |
Friday 13 February 2009
week 2 crew photo and new drill
Week 2 crew on site. Hard to believe it had been 43 degrees C only a few days earlier.
Absent is Alan Evered (again) and Gerry Kool (photographer). |
Wednesday 11 February 2009
Latest finds and working at home
When we can't access the site because of high tide, we break rock at the rented house in Inverloch. |
David Pickering (Melbourne Museum Collections Manager) checking out one of the fossil bones in our "prep area" in the shed. |
Long slender bone (rib?) in cross-section |
Two bones in cross-section. The one on the left was broken prior to deposition. |
A dinosaur leg bone - probably a tibia from one of the small ornithopod dinosaurs. |
Sunday 8 February 2009
Friday 6 February 2009
Some cool pics from Kat
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