At final count, we recorded 497 fossils in the 2013 Flat Rocks field catalogue.
This does not include all of the "shoulder bones" (bones that we could determine were too incomplete to be of scientific interest) that we discarded at site or at the house.
It does include a few fossils we labelled "microscope check" on site that Dave or Lesley subsequently prepared more and then discarded.
Most of these fossils will go back to the Melbourne Museum where Dave Pickering will oversee their removal from the rock during the year.
A few turtle specimans have gone home to Lesley's house to be prepared there. Lesley is working on describing our turtle (with some other scientists) and is keen to see as much material as she can before committing her conclusions to paper.
A big thanks to our volunteers, Friends and sponsors for making this all possible.
Thursday 28 February 2013
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Sunday 24 February 2013
Week 3 Bones of the Day
Sun 17 Feb: Lesley's ornithopod tooth
Mon 18 Feb: The metatarsal from the hole crew - Travis Lisa and Bill
Tue 19 Feb: Kat's ornithopod tooth
Wed 20 Feb: Jackpot - no prize awarded
Thu 21 Feb: Norman's pretty vertebra
Fri 22 Feb: tba
Mon 18 Feb: The metatarsal from the hole crew - Travis Lisa and Bill
Tue 19 Feb: Kat's ornithopod tooth
Wed 20 Feb: Jackpot - no prize awarded
Thu 21 Feb: Norman's pretty vertebra
Fri 22 Feb: tba
Saturday 23 February 2013
Videos
I took a few short videos on February 3rd when we had the jackhammer down on site. It was the second day of the dig and we were still figuring out exactly how we were going to attack this year's target fossil layers.
Andrew jackhammers:
Andrew jackhammers:
Nick jackhammers:
Nick jackhammers:
Eve is happy when Andrew uses a crowbar:
I thought it would be a cool idea to follow a bucket of water through a bucket line. Watch for Corrie switching sides and Fotini reaching for an imaginary bucket and giggling. We got a little better at this as the week wore on:
WIN News 22 Feb
For those unlucky enough not to get the Gippsland edition of WIN News - here's their story featuring a number of your favourite people looking for dinosaurs.
Thursday 21 February 2013
Week 3 Crew
Tuesday 19 February 2013
Day 18 - Cooler and damper
Korumburra Primary School visit
Excited students watching the hole |
Mike explains the site |
Lisa talking to students |
Dean with the ornithopod puppet |
Lisa answers a question |
Dean with a theropod skull |
Mike talks to the students |
A Koolasuchus diagram |
Rohan checks a fossil find |
Dean with the ornithopod puppet |
Rohan checks another fossil |
Leongatha Star
Today our dinosaur dig features in the Leongatha Star:
http://thestar.com.au/?p=6489. Here's a copy of page 18 that Brad (the editor) was kind enough to send me.
http://thestar.com.au/?p=6489. Here's a copy of page 18 that Brad (the editor) was kind enough to send me.
Monday 18 February 2013
Day 17 - Hot hot hot
James with his fossil |
Jarvis with her little vertebra |
Jarvis' vertebra |
Mary with her vertebra |
Mary's vertebra |
An unusual shape |
Lisa, Travis and Bill with their metatarsal |
The hole team's metatarsal |
The crew takes lunch in the dreaming pool |
Dave explaining his idea of safety glasses with windscreen wipers |
Friends' Day Bone of the Day
Good find
Kate and her Mum came all the way from East Bowral, NSW to visit our dig. Whilst prospecting with Mike, Kate found a shapely surface bone and agreed to pose with it. Kate is a Year 8 student who wants to be a palaeontologist. If she keeps finding fossils this quickly she seems well on her way.
Kate's fossil |
Kate |
Old Friends come to visit
Day 16 - Friends' Day
Sunday 17th Feb was Friend's Day. 71 supporters of Dinosaur Dreaming visited the site and watched us dig and jackhammer.
Alan and Nicole greet visitors at the top of the stairs |
Digging |
Kat wields the jackhammer |
The team looks at the layers in the hole |
Eve takes Friends on a tour |
Nick wields the jackhammer |
Friends look at the dinosaur footprint |
Friends watch the hole crews at work |
Lisa shows off some of our fossils |
Mike takes some Friends prospecting |
Kat wields the jackhammer |
Dave examines a fossil |
Getting close to the rock face |
Tamara wields the jackhammer |
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