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The Dinosaur Dreaming 2008 field season began on the 27th January and ended on 8th March. The first week was spent exploring the area at the western end of the main fossil layer known as “Prep Rock”. Prep Rock was carefully surveyed at the end of the 2007 field season by geologist Dale Sanderson. Dale indicated a number of lenses within the rock that had potential so we spent a number of days sampling the layers. Relatively few fossil bones were recovered, apart from a number of small dinosaur teeth and a small skull fragment. So it was decided to concentrate the rest of the dig on the most easterly part of the fossil layer, known as “Bridge East”. This is the area where the two ankylosaur dermal scutes were recovered during the previous field season and we were keen to return to hopefully find more.

No more ankylosaur material was found but many interesting fossil bones were recovered, including three more mammal jaws, a number of dinosaur limbs and our first turtle skull. We will be returning to this area next field season.

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View of Bridge East sub-site, Flat Rocks	Pumping water out of Bridge East	Geologist Alan Tait at Bridge East	Bill Hopkins (right) from Alaska
All girls in together	A cold day on site	This is how it should be	John Wilkins modelling dig T-shirt
Palaeo-orientation of fossil in situ	Ornithopod dinosaur femur in rock	Turtle pelvic element in rock	Turtle pubis in rock
Turtle pubis prepared	End of dinosaur limb	Mary at Prep rock