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The discovery of the Tyrannosaurus rex led by a team from the Burke Museum made news last year.   I've attached some photos of the preparation of the skull provide by the Burke Museum to show their progress with this dinosaur

 

They have named this animal "Tufts-Love Rex" after Jason Love and Luke Tufts, the two volunteers who discovered it.

 

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Lower Jaw is exposed from its tomb.  What a beautiful set of chompers

 

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The Skull is next.

 

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Maxilla

 

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More will follow as work continues.....

 

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That’s so cool! Does it have a name yet (other than catalog number)?

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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1 hour ago, crabfossilsteve said:

Where was that guy found?  Sure looks like the matrix is soft.

It was a Montana find and the Sandy matrix contributes to the great preservation and makes prepping much easier.

 

7 minutes ago, WhodamanHD said:

That’s so cool! Does it have a name yet (other than catalog number)?

I think they are calling it Tufts-Love Rex after Jason Love and Luke Tufts, the two volunteers who discovered it.

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Beautiful preservation. Great prep job as well.

 

It looks like very similar sediment and preservation as the T. rex Trix.

Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite

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1 hour ago, LordTrilobite said:

Beautiful preservation. Great prep job as well.

 

It looks like very similar sediment and preservation as the T. rex Trix.

If you are lucky enough to have you specimen in this sandy sediment the preservation is usually super and another example is the Nanotyrannus of the Dueling Dinosaurs.  

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15 minutes ago, Troodon said:

If you are lucky enough to have you specimen in this sandy sediment the preservation is usually super and another example is the Nanotyrannus of the Dueling Dinosaurs.  

The Duelling Dinosaurs actually came from the same area as Trix, so yeah, makes sense that they'd have similar preservation.

Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite

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Amazing! It’s a beautiful specimen. The preservation is outstanding, especially it’s survivng googly eye! :rofl:

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Wow.  What an amazing specimen, and how fun would it be to be able to work on that!!!!  Thank you for sharing.

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This is what you get to do when you're a professional paleontologist :trex:

Especially great since the skull looks very complete in its exposed side.

If you're a fossil nut from Palos Verdes, San Pedro, Redondo Beach, or Torrance, feel free to shoot me a PM!

 

 

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On 12/23/2017 at 11:13 AM, Troodon said:

I think they are calling it Tufts-Love Rex after Jason Love and Luke Tufts, the two volunteers who discovered it.

 

I can see the name light heartedly morphing to Tuf-Love amongst the preparators after a few hundred hours on it. :P

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Found some nice videos of on the discovery of this specimen.

 

 

 

 

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On 12/26/2017 at 5:57 AM, LordTrilobite said:

The Duelling Dinosaurs actually came from the same area as Trix, so yeah, makes sense that they'd have similar preservation.

Actually, this is not true.  The sediments in the Lance and Hell Creek are very locally variable, so bones form a site that is 'near' the dueling dinos does not at all by default have the same preservation.  On the other hand, when the bones are found in sandstone channels, they do tend to be very well preserved.  You can have beautifully preserved bones in sandstone and 10 meters away, much more flaky bones in shale.  Also, it is common to have iron concretions sitting on the bone in these sandstones that just ruin the otherwise beautiful bones.  

 

Thanks for posting these, troodon.  It is an amazing specimen.  

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