This paper came out today. For those who saw my post of the palm leaf in both Alaska and the Smithsonian... this explains what I was doing in Fairbanks. I was up there for a total of five weeks stretched out over five winters. Yes, Winter in Fairbanks. I was hoping to see minus 40 degrees, but it never quite made it.
I am "a fossil preparation specialist worked in two-week stints over the course of several years to get the fossil cleaned up and ready for study"
https://news.uaf.edu/new-thalattosaur-species-discovered-in-southeast-alaska/?fbclid=IwAR0f-Lg4vDgE5MVuxP7wOL1V_CV3v142uy7Y9slvyNdH-xfE0t0AiZpp5Uw
There is a paragraph about it Kirk Johnson and Ray Troll's latest book... "Cruising the Fossil Coastline"