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Seas and Shores of the Big Bend of Texas
From Mosasaurs to Dinosaurs
Ken Barnes
Founder & Curator
Mosasaur
Ranch
Below are a few photos of my dig site KB - B, this sit has associated fossils of one large Hadrosaur, duck billed dinosaur, (the most complete skeleton ever found in West Texas), and a few Chasmosaurus, horned dinosaur, fossils on the East end of the pit. Click to enlarge picture, click background to return
Dig site KB - B fossil bed
High school students working the B site
The dig site becomes a mud hole after a wet rainy season
Get the mud out first
Gas powered jackhammer to break up the hard mudstone overburden
Throw the spoils over there
Left and right lower jaws below
A single tooth
Teeth in the jaw
Axis, first cervical vertebra, I have 8+ other cervical vertebra, 12+ dorsal vertebra and 2 caudel vertebra for this Hadrosaur
Ventral view of the sacrum
Dorsal view
Ilium ( hip bone )
Ischium ( pelvic bone )
Left femur
Right femur
Tibia and fibula
Fibula
Bite marks on an ankle bone
Scapula
Dig sites KB - B and KB - A are in the Upper Shale Member of the Aguja formation and only 50 yards apart near the same level. Note, our High School programs students dug up a lot of these fossils.
Below are Ceratopid fossils found in the East end of KB - B dig site along with the Hadrosaur fossils above.
Below are a few photos of my dig site KB - A, this site has a jumble of fossils of at least 5 deferent size Hadrosaurs from very young to 3/4 grown with a very young Chasmosaurus mixed in, croc. teeth, carbonized wood and lots of unidentified fragments.
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Removing matrix
Below are fossils from KB - A dig site of several size Hadrosaurs from very small to 3/4 grown
Skull parts of a young Chasmosaur
Young Chasmosaur femur's
Left and right maxilla of a 3/4 grown Hadrosaur, different views below
This Hadrosaur had a bad dentition problem and probably starve to death?
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Right femur, other views below
Femur, Tibia, and fibula
Proximal 3/4 of a medium size Hadrosaur femur
Medium size Hadrosaur ilium
Left and right medium size Hadrosaur humerus, and a tinny one
Part of a small Hadrosaur left mandible
A small Hadrosaur tibia
A smaller Hadrosaur tibia and fibula note croc. bite
Proximal end of above
Assortment of small Hadrosaur caudel vertebra
Assortment of other fossils from the A- dig site
Possible Theropod quadrate?
Hollow bone, Theropod?
A lightly built non Hadrosaur neuralspine
A rare small left mandible of an alligator
Hadrosaur quadratojugal?
3 views
Tyrannosaurid teeth
Croc. teeth from various locations
Croc. tooth from Croc Hill location
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These photos serve as a photo library of some of my significant fossils
Third cervical vertebra
Middle cervical vertebra
Posterior dorsal vert.
Two middle caudel vertebra
