Wednesday 19 December 2012
Baby Williamson
I am delighted to report that Catherine and Gavin Williamson (2012 Week 3 diggers) had a baby daughter. Ella Jade arrived on 30 November weighing 3.63kg. Congrats to the happy parents. I'm sure you'll all agree that she is very cute.
Monday 26 November 2012
Images from Rookies' Day
Rookies and their mentors
Sunday 25 November 2012
Rookies finding fossils
Today 18 applicants for Dinosaur Dreaming Crew were put through their paces. I captured seven of them right after they'd found their first fossil. More photos of "Rookies Day" to come in the next few days, but I couldn't resist posting these as soon as possible.
Astrid shows off her find |
Lee-Anne finds a fossil |
Kim with his find |
Joe happy with his fossil |
Guess what Joerg found! |
Lauren with a turtle limb |
James looking thrilled |
Wednesday 21 November 2012
Juliana Sterli's visit
Reknowned fossil turtle researcher Juliana Sterli visited Museum Victoria in early November. Juliana works on South American fossil turtles and is based at Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Provincia de Chubut in Argentina. Juliana wanted to see the Early Cretaceous turtle material as well as the meiolaniid (horned turtle) specimens housed in the Vertebrate Palaeontolgy Collection.
She was very impressed with the size of the horns from a meiolaniid turtle from the Pleistocene of New South Wales.
Juliana in the Vertebrate Palaeontology lab at Museum Victoria
Juliana holding the giant fossil turtle horn from New South Wales. The turtle who owned this horn would have been the size of a small car!
During Juliana's visit resident turtlephyle Lesley Kool took her to see the Dinosaur Dreaming site near Inverloch and showed her some of the turtle specimens that have come from that site. Juliana is currently undertaking a review of fossil turtle phylogeny and hopefully some of our turtles will be included in that research.
She was very impressed with the size of the horns from a meiolaniid turtle from the Pleistocene of New South Wales.
Juliana in the Vertebrate Palaeontology lab at Museum Victoria
Juliana holding the giant fossil turtle horn from New South Wales. The turtle who owned this horn would have been the size of a small car!
During Juliana's visit resident turtlephyle Lesley Kool took her to see the Dinosaur Dreaming site near Inverloch and showed her some of the turtle specimens that have come from that site. Juliana is currently undertaking a review of fossil turtle phylogeny and hopefully some of our turtles will be included in that research.
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Portland trip
Over the long weekend a few diggers headed out to Portland to look for megafauna and shark's teeth (and penguins). Everyone went home happy - we found a few teeth (and Alanna found a jaw). We got completely covered in mud (my favourite part!). Travis spotted a bone in Sean's collection that was very similar to the one he just wrote his honours thesis about. And Darren got to rescue a couple of lumps of rock he is convinced will contain good shark's teeth, and to update his ideas about the sites. Big thanks to locals Sean and Toni-Lee for their generosity - showing us around and allowing us to look at their fossils. Pictures in other posts.
Portland Sunday 4th November
Briefing on the stairs |
Dave points to the fossil site |
Bottom of the stairs |
Dave checks the layer |
Stairs |
Bone in situ |
The tooth that Lisa found |
Alanna reaches under a overhang |
The jaw that Alanna found |
Dave cuts out the jaw |
Another bone in situ |
The tooth that Wendy found |
Working on the cliff |
Sarah makes a sound scape |
Travis and Alanna |
Dave searches the cliff |
Travis finds a low layer |
Sarah and Lisa |
Alanna and Dave |
Alanna and Dave |
Alanna and knife |
Dave |
Sloping rock |
Sarah, Dave and Alanna |
Sarah searching |
Lisa searching |
Wendy Dave and Sarah |
Dave and Alanna |
Darren looks at Sean's sharks tooth collection |
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