vermiformis? Beds

a small Scaphites from low in the ?Lower Emery SS beds of the Mancos Shale east of Green River.

Body chamber from Clioscaphites ?vermiformis. These seem to have a lot more ribs than typical C. vermiformis.

Sinbad Member Southern San Rafael Swell

Hondoo Arch. Limestone of the Jurassic Carmel Formation holding it up above the Navajo Sandstone, Kayenta and Wingate cliffs below, Varicolored Chinle below, and the upper part of the Moenkopi at the base.

Yellowish Sinbad Limestone on the other side of a fault, the gray fossiliferous base seen below the upper dolomitic beds.

It is hard to separate in this view, the Sinbad is in the middle, between red beds.

Gray beds on both side of the canyon

Sinbad Member near it's Type locality

Sinbad Formation of the Thaynes Group capping mesa, Black Dragon Formation of the Moenkopi Group just below (oil bleached in this area of the San Rafael Swell) and the ?Coconino/BlackBox Dolomite in foreground. One of the many waterpockets visible in the wash.

A tadpole in one of the waterpockets, probably a Spadefoot toad

The northern exposure of the Sinbad. Butte in background made up of Wingate Sandstone and the Chinle Formation.

One of the very poorly preserved ammonoids found in the Sinbad.

8ISCPP

8th International Symposium
Cephalopods - Present and Past
2010 @ Dijon, France
August 30th to September 3rd

I better start getting my poster ready

Critters that distract you from fossil hunting

Dan and Catherine playing with a Striped Whipsnake at DH

Mormon Crickets were quite common at DV

Not shown are all the lizards and tarantulas that were not photographed because I was to busy watching them.

Tentacles/Arms/Suckers

It's alive! I wonder what an ammonoids arm looked like?
The Enteroctopus dolfleini at the Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Science
San Francisco, Ca.

Scaphitoid

Scaphitoid Cephalopod, Yezoites, possibly a new species.

A canyon cut through the Ferron Sandstone

Mancos Shale

End of April Field Trips

Lara and Holly at DV1

A nice view of DV2

Don't take my water

Sunrise at the Border Inn, Baker, Nevada.
The top of Notch Peak just visible below the "SLOTS" sign.
I lost all of $5 at them one armed bandits

Jim, Jean Guex, Viorel Atudorei, at Cowboy Pass (CP1)