Unearthing the Past with Paleontology

The paleontology here is field paleontology — the patient work of getting a 150-million-year-old animal out of the ground without losing the story it carries.

This archive documents direct participation in excavations across Wyoming’s Morrison Formation. It preserves the full recovery sequence — prospecting, excavation, stabilization, quarry mapping, plaster jacketing, preparation, and documentation — rather than generalized dinosaur facts. The record is about how the specimens came out of the rock, and the quarry context they came from.

Three excavations anchor the collection:

• Apatosaurus “Bertha” — Como Bluff, with Dr. Robert T. Bakker (1994–97)
• Sarah / Sophie the Stegosaurus — Shell, Wyoming (2004), later displayed at the Natural History Museum, London
• Camarasaurus — Red Canyon Ranch, Shell, Wyoming (2007), later transferred to the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Japan