CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) recently received a trailerful of plaster-coated care packages that add to its already expansive fossil collection – one of the largest in the country. The dinosaur fossils are the spoils of a seven-week field season in Montana led by CMC’s partner Elevation Science Institute. The fossils, numbering in the hundreds, were transported cross country on a flatbed trailer to CMC’s collection facility for care, preservation and further preparation.
Over more than a month-and-a-half, teams of volunteers dug, drilled and dusted in the sun-scorched hills of Montana, carefully exposing and extracting a range of dinosaur fossils. More than 150 amateur paleontologists, some as young as 12 years old, worked alongside trained professionals from Elevation Science Institute during their public field school. The fossils, all collected on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), were carefully packed and prepped for delivery to CMC, a federal repository for materials collected at BLM sites. While a majority of the fossils arrived at CMC, a portion were delivered to the Montana Natural History Center in Missoula, where they will be prepared and later transported to Cincinnati and processed into CMC’s collection.
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