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<h4>Bismarck Dig</h4>
<p class="main2">I was working next to Staffer Amy, who was checking the diagrams in the book after jacketing a large bone. The discussion: "Well, I think it's a <a href="metatarsal.html" target="_blank">metatarsal</a>".</p>
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<p class="main2">Volunteer S. was trenching around the back of the bone we were working to extract, showing on top of the rock not yet plastered. Speculation was that it was a hip bone of an Edmontosaurus, aka "Cretaceous cows" because they were Tyrannosaur fodder.</p>
<img src="images/Edmontosaurus.png" width="960" height="540" border="0" alt="Edmontosaurus hip bone"><br>
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<p class="main2">Volunteers plastering bone jumbles with big "jackets". Half-excavated Triceratops skeleton is out of view to the left.</p>
<img src="images/DinoDig_DSC0244.jpg" width="960" height="540" border="0" alt="Edmontosaurus hip bone"><br>
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<p class="main2">Digging with the trowel so that plastered bone next to me could be snapped over, then the second bone could be trenched, covered, and rolled over.</p>
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<p class="main2">Staffer Amy conferring with dig manager Jeff (white hat) about a rolled-over jacket. The goal is remove as much loose rock as possible before sending it back to the Lab.</p>
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