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Marmarth Research Foundation: In the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota

Marmarth Research Foundation: In the Hell Creek formation of North Dakota

Palatobaena cohen
Turtle Graveyard Excavation, 2006
Hell Creek Formation

Palatobaena cohen

Hell Creek badlands

Hell Creek badlands

2006

It's one frill after another!

Norman Gardiner
Retired English Professor

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Bonie Butte

Field jacket
Gary Guardabascio undercuts the field jacket before flipping it.
Hard at work
MRF volunteers work around the articulated Triceratops pelvis.
Jim
Jim works around the blue pins that mark the location of exposed bone.
Rib
The distal end of a rib protruding from the quarry's backwall.
Gary Guardabascio
Gary Guardabascio poses next to a complete Triceratops rib he found.
Volunteer Errol Erickson
Volunteer Errol Erickson works carefully around a vertebra.
Triceratops femur
Several complete limb bones have been uncovered at the Bonie Butte locality.
Triceratops femur
A complete femur was collected in 2007.
Excavating
Tom Tucker discovered this locality in 2007.
Volunteer Al Fleming
Volunteer Al Flemming, a MRF volunteer since 2004, poses in front of the site he helped excavate.
Field jacket collection time
Gary Guardabascio is at the ready with a railroad bar to try and help slide this field jacket containing the pelvis and several dorsal vertebrae of a Triceratops into the back of Tom Tucker's pickup.