Detail View: Image Archives: Stegomastodon excavation

File Name: 
WEI2011-26.jpg
catalog number: 
WEI2011-26
collection: 
Fieldwork, Curator
title: 
Stegomastodon excavation
creator: 
Richard M. Wicker
creator type: 
photographer
creator: 
Christine Powers
creator type: 
creator of digital collection
description: 
Gussie McCracken DMNS volunteer assists Dr. Richard Stucky DMNS Curator of Paleoecology and Evolution covering the stegomastodon jaw with plaster to create a field jacket at the Weiss Gravel Pit near Holyoke, Colorado. Field jackets protect the fossil so that it can be transported to the museum and the jaw can be safely removed from the matrix in the museum's fossil lab.
date: 
8/10/2011
date type: 
date of photograph
location: 
USA, Colorado, Phillips County, Weiss Gravel Pit
modified: 
no
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
2.17 MB
source: 
Nikon D300
rights: 
use with permission Denver Museum of Nature & Science