| This last day we hunted an old quarry. The geological
formation here is Marlbrook and the age is Cretaceous (upper Campanian,
70-72 mya) |
The quarry
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Roz
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Calcite veins in the shale.
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| Roz finds the limb bone of a large turtle. |
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| Here I find three exploded mosasaur vertebra.
I don't know which genus or species this is from. |
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| Here are the cleaned and rebuilt mosasaur vertebrae, first
two pics of all three together and multiple views of the best one.
Note the shark tooth cut on the single vertebra. |
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note the tooth gauge
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| The most amazing find here were these skull parts that when
reassembled revealed themselves to be the skull of a large Turtle called
Ctenochelys
(formerly Toxochelys). |
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| Here is the cleaned and reassembled Ctenochelys
(Toxochelys) turtle skull. |
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jaw bone
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