Day one: During our first day we traveled through Colorado National Monument and became acquainted with some of the local geology, similar to what we would see once we arrived in Moab. We also took a trip out to Cactus Park to see a Jurassic dinosaur track site, where dinosaurs walked on a wet, sandy [...]

Thus far we have not collected anything large that requires preparation (or removing the fossil from its surrounding rock and stabilizing the remains). Most of the remains we have collected have been relatively small (that will change this summer), consisting of small isolated bone pieces and a few hundred trilobites. We thought we would show a few of the trilobite [...]

Meet Thor, the Chuckwalla, a resident of the Marble Mountains who ambled past our quarries and posed for his portrait.

So, you’ve all been waiting with bated breath to learn more about our trip, haven’t you?  Enjoy the photos from ReBecca.  As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words . . .
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We are headed out to the Marble Mountains of California to collect trilobites from the Lower Cambrian Latham Shale, below cliffs of Chambless Limestone. Last April the Museum took a collecting trip out and came back with more than 147 specimens for the Museum collections.
While trilobites are invertebrates and are legally collectible from BLM land (reasonable amounts for [...]

We’ve known for years that the 20+ types of mammals that are found along side the dinosaurs in the Morrison Formation in western North America are small, but how small? In the Grand Valley, most of our dinosaurs, such as Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, and Apatosaurus, come from the Morrison Formation, a layer of rock well exposed along the base of [...]