Day 7: Jane's Back

On November 4th I continued to work of my jacket. I used the spray bottle more the get the dirt off. I also found a few new pieces of bone as well as another with geode looking things on it. What I discovered was that I think these two pieces were the roots of a plant, and where the geodes are is were the smaller roots branched off and were broken.

Day 6: More Jacket and The Big Block

On November 1st I continued to work on my jacket. I had gotten most of the loose dirt of so I started using the spray bottle and chiseling away the mud from the dry dirt and the bone. I found some more bones hidden under the dirt. There was also a bone ontop the ended up looking like it had two tiny geodes that had been broken inhalf ontop of it.

I also got to go upstairs for the last 30 minutes or so and take a look at a block containing all different specimens. This block is about 14ft long by 4ft wide by 3ft tall and is covered in fossils.

Day 5: First Jacket

On October 25th I started my first jacket. A jacket is basically dirt containing a specimen covered in plaster. The plaster is cut off on the top and you brush off all the extra dirt and start to chisel on the hard dirt, and you have to keep track of all the dirt for soil samples. My jacket contains the spine from a Dimetradon named Jane. Bellow are a few pictures of my jacket as I started to work on it.