Monthly Archives: March, 2011
Jonesing for mosasaurs
It’s starting to feel a lot like springtime, which for us usually means trips to western Kansas to our Niobrara chalk localities. We haven’t made it out yet (still waiting on that first downpour to wash the winter fluff off of the rocks… it may be a while with this drought) so instead I’ll write …
Small projects
Yep we all have them. In addition to the decades of prep backlog of big, complete and interesting specimens there is always that nagging pile of individual bones and small specimens that gets collected then sits as priority number 12 on the shelf. Sometimes it’s a good organizational effort (and therapy) to get these things …
More Lambeosaur Fun
This week we’ve had a chance to begin work on the skull material recovered from RMRDRC 07-020 “Joyce”, from the upper Judith River Formation of Fergus County, Montana. The material is typical for the Judith river… SOFT. We’ve begun utilizing the technique that I wrote about for the first FPCS at Petrified Forest National Park, …
