Today we sampled Noddyland. Not a lot of bones found...
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| Nick and Fotini discuss angle grinder options |
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| Fotini trims a fossil |
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| Rohan, Mike and Melissa plan next steps |
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| Ruairidh and Tom refine strategy whist Rohan breaks rock |
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| Melissa and Mike looking at rock |
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| Rohan finds a fossil |
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| Ruairidh wields a sledgehammer |
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| Rohan’s fossil |
Today we sampled the Mary Anning site (between Inverloch and our Flat Rocks site). Not a lot of bones, but better than yesterday. What we called site C (our third sample) is rather promising.
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| Lesley looks happy with her “bone of the day” |
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| Lesley’s ankylosaur scute. |
Today we sampled the Melissa’s Mine site near Inverloch. It was voted “Meh” by most of the small crew. We found turtle scraps and only one nice bone. But it was good to be out on the beach again!
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| Mike’s bone (best of the day!) |
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| Mike shows off his find |
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| Melissa with her find from further down the beach |
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| The beach is beautiful |
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| Joerg with his find |
Since Melissa found 19 bones in one small layer, we needed a to mobilize a small crew to extract them.
Whilst down there, we found a few more bones including an ornithopod jaw fragment.
The mammal uppers from ETRW have been published!
Welcome to our newest Dinosaur Dreaming taxon Sundrius ziegleri!
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2020.1829042
Due to the ongoing threat of COVID-19, Dr Rich has made the difficult decision that there will be no ETRW dig in 2021. We have now set our sights on 2022.
Gerry’s jaw finally has a name! Kryoparvus gerritti is one of the smallest ever prehistoric mammals. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030497521
