Thank You, Elizabeth!

Elizabeth was not only one of the BBPI's earliest non-close-friend/family supporter, but she was our 1st international supporter - she's from the U.K.! She surprised us again in the spring by sponsoring not just one small jacket, but also a medium-sized jacket!

This small jacket contains a small limb bone from a juvenile Diplodocus. In this picture, the top jacket is being completed by Members of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University during their week with us this past season. Despite its small size, this jacket was a bit problematic, thanks to a bone laying at a very steep angle in the ground - a very unusual situation!

 

The medium-sized jacket is also from Diplodocus, was also problematic. Not because it was lying in a strange angle, but because there were so many bones around it! This tibia was one of the first bones we found this season, but it wasn't until the last week of the season that we actually finally got it out of the ground! In the picture below you can see the head of a rib and a vertebra peaking out of the ground, right beside the jacket. Those are just two of many that decided to present problems for us!

 

Both of these bones were collected from the famous Jurassic bonebed known as the Mother's Day Site in Montana!

Thank you, Elizabeth, for your generosity and continued support. We really appreciate it!