1. Senior Technician Kerry Geddes (left) and former UQ undergraduate student Jon Drew (right) in the Vertebrate Palaeontology Lab in the School of Integrative Biology, The University of Queensland. Photo: Steve Salisbury.

 

 
2. Kerry Geddes removes the lid from a plaster jacket containing sauropod bones collected during the 2003 Elliot dig. Photo: Steve Salisbury.

 

 
3. Kerry Geddes begins to carefully remove sediment from a recently opened jacket. This sediment is collected and screen-washed by undergraduate student Jon Drew in the hope that it may contain microfossils. Photo: Steve Salisbury.

 

 
4. Honours student Tim Holt begins the job of removing sediment from around one of the sauropod bones collected during the 2003 Elliot dig. Photo: Steve Salisbury.

 

 
5. Former UQ undergraduate students Jon Drew (left) and Brett Poulsen (right) carefully remove sediment from two of the sauropod bones collected during the 2003 Elliot dig. Photo: Steve Salisbury.

 

 
6. Portions of a sauropod vertebra collected during the 2003 Elliot dig. With the sediment surrounding it now removed, this bone is ready for drilling. Photo: Steve Salisbury.

 

 
7. Kerry Geddes using a pneumatic drill to remove rock from a sauropod vertebra collected during the 2003 Elliot dig. Drilling specimens such as this one generates a lot of suspended dust particles, so full facemasks with dust-filter cartridges need to be worn at all times. Photo: Steve Salisbury.

 

 
8. Former UQ undergraduate student Jon Drew using a pneumatic drill to remove rock from one of the sauropod bones collected during the 2003 Elliot dig. Photo: Steve Salisbury.

 

 
9. Kerry Geddes (left) and Jon Drew (right) use sieves to wash and clean fossiliferous sediment collected during the 2003 Elliot dig. After being washed, sieved and oven dried three or four times, a 10 kg bag of sediment may end up producing only a few handfuls of rock particles and (hopefully) microfossils. Photo: Steve Salisbury.

 

 
10. Fossiliferous sediment collected during the 2003 Elliot dig, immediately after screen-washing. This sediment has been washed and dried three times and is now ready for sorting. Photo: Steve Salisbury.

 

 
11. Former UQ undergraduate student Jon Drew places sieved sediment collected during the 2003 Elliot dig in an industrial oven. Once it has been left to dry overnight, the sediment will be soaked in water for 24 hours before being sieved again. This process may need to be repeated at least three times before sorting under a microscope can begin. Photo: Steve Salisbury.

 

 
12. Maurizio Bigazzi making a replica of one the sauropod bones collected during the 2002 Elliot dig, in this case the right tibia (one of the shinbones) of a sauropod (Mary). The painted replica is now on display in the School of Integrative Biology (Level 2 of the Goddard Building). Photo: Steve Salisbury.

 

 
13. All the fossils collected during the course of the Winton Dinosaur Project are recorded in a GIS-based Digital Palaeontology Support System, designed by Dr John Hayes, (School of Design and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology). The information associated with each specimen is entered into the database by Honours student Tim Holt. Photo: Steve Salisbury.