Today we got more into the nitty-gritty part of excavating, spending most of the day digging around bones that we’ve already located to prepare them for jacketing. We also removed the small chevron that we found yesterday afternoon.

Even so, we found several additional bones. Most of them are rather nondescript fragments, but the one shown above appears to be a rather substantial limb bone. I have no idea yet which bone it is, much less which taxon it represents. But as you can see in the photo above it’s at least 15 cm wide across the shaft. Not obvious in the photo is that it’s oval in cross section, so it’s less than 15 cm thick. We’ll be working on this one into next week, I think.

As a follow-up to yesterday’s scorpion, here’s a less threatening example of the local wildlife (OK, I admit this was taken several miles from our site, but we have them in our field area too):