@mhouseholder.bsky.social
Fossil Preparator for the North Dakota Geological Survey. Currently working on Dakota the dinomummy.
A fossil preparator stands with the cast of a dinosaur skull
A fossil preparator glues pieces of bone back together
A fossil preparator uses a pneumatic to remove rock from a fossil
A special Throwback Thursday!
Since Jane became a holotype today, here's some old photos from 2003/2004 when I got to help prep her.
My annual it gets cold here in North Dakota in January post.
That's -20°F which is about -28°C which is not as cold as I've seen it here in the past.
Christmas tree with plastic dinosaur lights.
O dinosaur tree, O dinosaur tree. How lovely are thy teeth.
10.12.2024 16:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stephanie, Clint, and Mindy standing around a dead cow in a field, taking pictures
Oh no! Paleontologizing caught @boydpaleo.bsky.social, @mhouseholder.bsky.social, and me being super normal about a rotting cow on the SVP field trip. #taphonomy
23.11.2024 00:29 — 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
A fossil preparator uses magnification to clean a crocdylian Fossil with a pin vise.
It was an itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie, yellow poka-dot rare crocy, that I prepped for the first time today.
Pin-vise is at 1/64" size! So little!
Curious where Sternberg Science Camps+ will be this summer? Well we’ve got a map for that! Yellow states are places we have logistics pretty much locked in for. States in gray are ones we are diligently working on for 2025 programs! We’ll be posting updates of this map as we get logistics finalized.
20.11.2024 18:57 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1If you see this, post your bird art 🐦⬛🪶🎨
18.11.2024 17:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Honestly, it depends on the day. The skin is preserved in some pretty tough rock so progress can be painfully slow at times. Then there are the days we have tours and I get to see little kids faces light up as they stare at actual dinosaur skin, and I'm reminded that, yes, it really is dope as hell.
18.11.2024 15:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Model of Laelaps in front of a print of the painting of Fighting Laelaps by Charles R. Knight.
Growing up in Chicago and so close to the Field Museum, I always had a deep fondness for Charles R. Knight's paintings.
Recently, I was given this wax model that was supposedly used as a study for the famous Fighting Laelaps painting.
Close-up on dinosaur scales.
The right arm of an edmontosaurus with preserved skin and keratin
Me using an airscribe to remove matrix from the hand of an edmontosaurus mummy.
Me holding the prepared skull of Hoplophoneus from Badlands National Park
Hi! I’m Mindy and I’ve worked as a preparator of fossil vertebrates for 21 years. I’ve worked on all sorts of projects both large and microscopic. Most of my current work is on fossilized skin from Dakota the #dinomummy.
16.11.2024 04:35 — 👍 35 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
Photograph of a plushie Kulindadromeus holding a take out container from Cinnabon. They are placed on the dash of a truck.
Sorry for the delay! Catching up on posting over a lunch break.
@mhouseholder.bsky.social and I set off early this morning to run some SEM-EDS analysis on thin sections of fossilized skin from Dakota the #dinomummy at NDSU in Fargo.
I would love to be added to this.
15.11.2024 03:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
