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Hi all! I'm Tiffany and I'm in Cape Town, South Africa. I have an Honours degree in Archaeology, but I have been working as a fossil preparator for nearly 4 years. I used to work at our Natural History museum but I have very recently taken my preparation skills private. I primarily work on therapsid fossils from the mid to late Permian (sometimes spilling into the Triassic) that occur here in South Africa. There is an area called the Karoo which fortunately is very rich in beautiful fossils! When I started working on fossils I didn't know much about them, but over the last few years I have learnt so much! It has taken time and dedication to get to the level of preparation that I am at, with many hours of sitting dead still. I work on microvertebrate fossils and I love working on teeth especially! I've attached a picture of a juvenile youngina (same as profile picture just better quality) that I worked on last year, and the scale bar you can see is 1mm gaps (sorry - we're all metric here!) so you can see the scale of things I work on. I'd like to learn more about what equipment people around the world use for different specimens, as I am in the market to buy my own equipment. I also hope to contribute about fossil preparation and what I have learnt myself! There is still so much out there!!

University researchers comb Big Horn Basin for tiny fossils by Tracie Mitchell, Northern Wyoming Daily News, July 5, 2017 http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/news/wyoming/article_66b4b8d4-1390-578c-8e36-ffe6b51bf123.html Yours, Paul H.

From Bonebeds to Paleoecology by Don Brinkman Extinct: The Philosophy of Palaeotology http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2016/7/11/paleoecology-in-the-badlands http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016/08/04/from-the-community-from-bonebeds-to-paleoecology/ Yours, Paul H.