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My dreams to become a dinosaur paleontologist were crushed years ago when after getting my undergrad at IUP with geology I thought getting into grad school for Vertebrate Paleo would be fine, but turns out niche fields don't leave a lot of rooms for RAs and TAs  Anyway I still like that at my undergrad I got to do a cool project with Trilobites and conodonts to use specimens around the US (Alaska, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, and Virginia where I did field work) to form a case that the boundary of Stage 10 of the Cambrian should be defined by the appearance of the conodont Eocondontus notchpeakensis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_Stage_10#cite_note-Landing_2011-3 (my prof made me an author for a French Paleontology manuscript with this research) I will say this research was really fun to do work wise, I remember for Spring Break having my dad drive me from home to college (he was working on an old coal power plant that was near Indiana, PA) getting there at like 5 am, and I'd get in the lab get some rocks that needed cracking, used the scope the clean up the trilobites, and then worked on making diagrams/charts using adobe illustrator while spending a third of the time surfing the web on the laptop next to the work computer. Wish I had the image of Glaberaspis vescula because I was told me and my prof (John Taylor who's now retired) were the first to get a good enough specimen to document the pygidium. Anyway at the same time I'm now 10 years volunteering in the Paleontology Lab at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History so I still get my Paleontology fix without having to pay grad student loans so maybe I dodged a bullet. Matt Lamanna is a cool rear end dude even though he is going to work himself to an early grave.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/first-spinosaurus-tail-found-confirms-dinosaur-was-swimming/ Ah so that's what this tweet was implying https://twitter.com/TomHoltzPaleo/status/1255488851893800961
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Bilirubin posted:Have a basic idea of what you are digging in.
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Lightning Knight posted:these kinds of fossils are probably fairly valuable, getting any of them into museums or scientific labs instead of private collections - or worse, destroyed to make jewelry - is a minor miracle I imagine
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