“It looks like several horse teeth”
While digging in our west pit on March 9th, volunteer, Bri Blaga found a heavily eroded horse tooth. The … Continue
First Fossil Stork
Montbrook keeps on giving with the discovery of our first fossil stork! The fossil found is a tarsometatarsus which is … Continue
March of the Gomphotheres
We’ve been encountering a lot of gomphothere bones lately, including some juvenile gomph fossils! One of the coolest discoveries today … Continue
Frog fossils at Thomas Farm
Today was for the frogs! Our frog expert Maria Vallejo helped find and ID the numerous frog fossils that were … Continue
Volunteer specimen: Sharon’s alligator jaw
Look at this specimen! The lower jaw of a small Montbrook alligator collected by volunteer Sharon Lord in May is … Continue
Fossil Find: Extinct sevengill shark tooth
Our discovery of the week is this amazing tiny (finger for scale) 5-6 million year old symphyseal tooth of an … Continue
Pretty perfect gomphothere tooth emerged!
The molar discovered by Tammy Marks is free (and perfect)! This tooth will be used to describe the species, determine … Continue
Volunteer Discovery: Raccoon ulna!
Dig volunteer Marcia Rentschler found an arm bone (ulna) from a large raccoon this week! It is very close in … Continue
