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Requesting help with my first vertebrate prep job (It's a big one!)
DokDeino posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
Greetings! I'm Dok Deino, a Paleontology student who is going into fossil prep. Fortunately, I was able to negotiate a volunteer position with my college advisor. My job: to prepare some specimens that have been in the collection for about 60 years. And one of them is pretty big. It's an unidentified sauropod femur, approximately 1.6-1.8 meters in length, weighing at least 70 kg. Genus unknown, but it is most likely from the Morrison formation. I believe the attached photo is a caudal view of the femur, if anyone wants to take a crack at ID-ing it. My professor and I are currently brainstorming our method of attack, but since neither of us are preparators (yet, in my case), I wanted to reach out to people who are. There's another specimen as well, but we have no idea what it might be. It's a 1.2x.2x.5 meter block of plaster, basically. All we know about the specimen is that the people who retrieved it only jacketed Dinosaur remains. So, if anyone out there has some advice, please respond! Whether for these specimens specifically, or just in general. This is an interesting field that I am very excited to break into! Thank you for reading, -Dok- 37 replies
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An international team of paleontologists, which includes the University of Bristol, have identified the world's oldest lizard, providing key insight into the evolution of modern lizards and snakes. "This is the story of the re-discovery of a specimen and highlights the importance of preserving naturalistic specimens in well maintained, publicly accessible collections." LINK
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