Koonwarra 24 April

Mike and Pip happy to be
digging on their Anniversary

Prof Tim Flannery shows off
his fossil fish

Tim's Fish

Darren Bellingham has sent me a few photos that he took whilst visiting the Koonwarra dig on Wednesday. Enjoy!




Fish head

ANZAC Day



Today I headed down to Koonwarra with my friend Peggy to check out the dig there.  Here are some photos of the fun.  Note our beautiful Hi-Vis vests.



The digger

Mike and Peggy hard at work

The crew



The Prep Table (hay bale)



Dave works the rock face



Peggy finds a beautiful fish




Peggy's fish



We found lots of plant fossils



The crew on top of the rock face



Wendy digs up a fish



Wendy's fish

Koonwarra

Mary and Pip enjoying the fish fossils

A small crew has been looking for fossils near Koonwarra.  In 2009, Dr Tom Rich and colleagues had noticed that the Koonwarra sediment looked at bit like that in western Liaoning Province in China (the paper was called A potential Gondwanan polar Jehol Biota lookalike in Victoria, Australia and published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria). So the team is looking for any sign that these sediments might contain feathered dinosaurs, birds, pterosaurs and mammal skeletons.

So far they have found a number of beautiful fish fossils.