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Hello everyone, This summer, I’ve begun volunteering at the MNCPPC Dinosaur Park in Laurel, MD. It’s somewhere I’ve known about and visited since I was a kid, and it feels great to be a part of the park now that I’m older. For now, I planned to help out this summer as I go back to college in late August, but I’m really enjoying it so I do hope to return on breaks and after I graduate. This park is an early-Cretaceous oxbow lake deposit and is the best source of early-Cretaceous fossils on the east coast. I’ll let you do your research if you’re interested, I don’t want to go on too long. But in essence, the volunteers at the park help the public when they come on the first and third Saturdays of the month to freely surface collect (their finds are kept with the park and catalogued) to help the scientific process. We have some other duties too, but otherwise, we get to fossil hunt for several hours! It really is a dream-job for me. I’ve had this dream of finding dinosaurs close to home since being a kid, and now I get to actually live that dream. I thought I’d start this thread to show what I find over the course of this summer, and hopefully the years to come of volunteering here. I’ll start small, I’ve only volunteered for two Saturdays at the park so far, so my finds will mostly be indeterminate bone fragments, but eventually I’ll probably dial down the small stuff in the hopes I train my eye more and find better specimens. I’ll also potentially post other finds from nearby Potomac Group exposures, and I’ll give background info on all of the posts. I’m so excited to be able to post about Cretaceous fossils, so bear with me! Feel free to offer opinions and IDs, and feel free to ask me questions about what I’m doing and I’ll do my best to answer them. And if you volunteer at the park and are on the forum, please let me know!
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This is a fossil seed I got from the Hell Creek Formation (Montana) last year. Would you say this is a species of Marmarthia or some other plant?
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