The first week I just worked on the small Jane jacket for 3.5 hours. Last week I was in the lab for 3 hours and started removing dirt from the small Jane jacket. A little while into working on this David came into the lab and showed me a really cool box of fossilized pieces of ocean life. These included stingray teeth, shark teeth, fish vertebrae, eel vertebrae, and stingray barbs. I got to dig through these as I filled small plastic bags with about an ounce of goodies. I enjoyed getting to look at fossils that I hadn't seen before and trying to identify them. My favorite fossils were the teeth because there were so many different types. There were also a few that had a very similar shape to Dimetrodon teeth, which I found particularly interesting because Dimetrodons were part of some of the first land ecosystems during the early Permian period.
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