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About a dozen folks joined dinosaur paleontologists in Buffalo, South Dakota , 2005. Bob and I joined the group and tagged along to various sites in search of dinosaur evidence. We would often go off the track, so were dubbed the "wandering professors."
This region of South Dakota is wide expanses of grasslands and eroded hills. There is a great deal of wash-down of fossils from Cretaceous sediments, so there are fossils all over. It is hard to walk without crunching over a fragment of a dinosaur bone.
In some areas we studied the top layer looking for float. Dino teeth, gar scales, and tiny bones were found on the surface.
We were instructed not to dig, but just look on the. surface for bones and teeth.
Another site was a trove of Cretaceous leaves and plant parts.
Many a mile traipsing over hillsides in search of fossils we found a layer of iron siderites that imprinted plants and even traces of insects.
Part of the skull plate of a Triceratops.
Amber from the Cretaceous leaf bank. Is there a mosquito embedded with dino DNA?
An iron siderite leaf perfectly preserved at the end of the Cretaceous.
A great place to wander about...if you have a rancher's permission!
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