Description
This is a section of a Cretaceous Dinosaur Fossil Rib Bone Section.
This one was found and prepared by famed paleontologist Walter Stein at one of his leased dig sites outside Belle Fourche, South Dakota. The bone is stabilized and is 5 3/4 inches long..
The Cretaceous Genuine Dinosaur Edmontosaurus Rib Bone Fragment. It comes from a bone collected legally on a ranch within the Badlands of South Dakota. Because the badlands have little vegetation, when it rains, the rains wash away sediment. So when prospecting bone fragments as well as turtle shell, fish scales and other fossils are exposed. This fragment is a piece of Genuine Dinosaur Bone from the Cretaceous Period.
There are many bone fragments found while prospecting. When the bone is exposed to the elements it begins to decay. Because this decay is rapid, a dinosaur bone may fall into dust in just a few years. This bone is also called float because it “floats” downhill revealing a possible dinosaur bone bed.
Walter is a paleontologist that leads many digs into South Dakota badlands but is also a preparer and is a Dinosaur Museum Director.
This section of Edmontosaurus Rib Bone is 7 1/4 inches long and comes in this glass-topped leatherette case that is 6 by 8 inches.
