Mary Anning

Stunningly perfect weather yesterday for a day sampling and prospecting at the site we call Mary Anning near the RACV club. Not a lot of bones found (the ones pictured were all previous finds by Melissa that we removed), but there was rock and ocean and sea air.

A large piece of turtle plastron
- and yes, we cut through it!

A pretty spongy bone

A small shaft - metatarsal???

Lesley and Doris confer
as Dean breaks rock

Some video-documenters had
a new-fangled printing camera

Mary heads offshore past
Dean towards Tom

What a view!

Mary and Doris confer

Doris heads offshore

Honey locality

 A beautiful sunny (if slightly windy) day at the Honey Locality, where a handful of Weekend Warrios extracted a few bones and sampled a couple of promising looking rocks.

The view from site

Dreamers spread out over the shore platform

Winton Crocodile ate a little ornithopod like ours

 'It's just extrodinary': Ancient crocodile's last meal may have been a dinosaur - ABC News    

Congrats to Matt White and colleagues.

Abdominal contents reveal Cretaceous crocodyliforms ate dinosaurs - ScienceDirect

Alan and Nicole in The Age

 Couple’s share their secret to lasting love (theage.com.au)

New paper on Dinosaur Dreaming Ornithopods

A new paper by Ruairidh Duncan et al compares a number of ornithopod jaws from ETRW with others from Flat Rocks.

Read about it here:

Ornithopod jaws from the Lower Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation, Victoria, Australia, and their implications for polar neornithischian dinosaur diversity: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 0, No 0 (tandfonline.com) 

Or an easier read in The Conversation:

Meet the diverse group of plant-eating dinosaurs that roamed Victoria 110 million years ago (theconversation.com)

Winton sauropod trackway opening

 A few Dino Dreamers headed up to Australian Age of Dinosaurs last weekend to celebrate the grand opening of The March of the Titanosaurs.

Waiting for the day to begin was difficult - we could see the trackway building and some giant sauropods tantalisingly out of reach...

Selfie by Amber

After a few words from David Elliot and some government supporters, we headed off to see the trackway. 

We stopped to check out the little dinosaur sculptures on the way in.

And then there were the trackways. Wow.

Selfie by Amber

We had to pause and check out that view.

Nighttime brought some different views

Disco dinosaurs

The next morning, AAOD was kind enough to let us sneak back in to visit the sauropods.

Selfie by Amber

Lisa peeking out

Sauropods imprinting on Steve

Oops

We had another look at the little dinosaurs

Dinosaurs are huggable

Lisa making friends with the ankylosaur

And one last peek at those trackways!

Photo by Lisa

Koonwarra Rock at Fish Creek (Sunday 25th)

 Due to inclement weather, we decided to process some Koonwarra rock at Fish Creek instead of sampling the Bass Coast.

Nicole with her first find

Fotini finds a fossil

Doris with her fossil find

Kim shows off a fossil

Alan with his fossil

Wendy finds a plant

A cool plant found be Wendy

Our fossil haul around lunchtime

Lovely plant

Fish scales

Fish

Another lovely plant

Dean's weird fish

Wendy's big plant

Nicole's insect

Melissa's insect