2017 Summer Field Season in SD- Dino digging!

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  • December 6, 2017 at 11:05 pm #29544
    Walter Stein
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    Here are a few photos of our digs up in South Dakota this past summer! We have ben working in the Hell Creek Formation of Butte, Meade and Perkins County mostly. The Hell Creek is Latest Cretaceous in age… 66 mya. Worked on multiple new vertebrate sites, recovered another 300+ bones from our main Tooth Draw Quarry, finished my strat sections, found another Triceratops skeleton, and met over 300 some guests from all over the US and the world. Hope you like the pics!

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    December 6, 2017 at 11:23 pm #29549
    Walter Stein
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    Here are a few more pics. I think we took like 3,000+ photos this summer.

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    December 7, 2017 at 3:07 pm #29564
    Sadie Mills
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    @walter-stein, great field photos, thanks for sharing! What was the best find of the summer?

    December 12, 2017 at 11:05 am #29615
    Walter Stein
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    The biggest and best find of the summer was the new Triceratops skeleton. The most scientifically important find was an Alvarezsaurid claw from the Hell Creek. Alvarezsaurids are not supposed to be in the Hell Creek, so that is likely to be an undescribed, new genus and species.

     

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