Fossils

Marion and Margaret in New York City—Fall, 1956

Marion and Margaret Bonner at the Statue of Liberty during their New York trip to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meetings.

Chuck as T-Rex—1958

Chuck Bonner in a Tyrannosaurus rex Halloween costume made for him by his mother.

Marion and George at S.V.P.—1958

Marion Bonner and George Sternberg in Chicago for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meetings.

Dana and Chuck Bonner—April, 1959

The boys in the beds.

Collecting a Fossil Fish—1959

Orville and Marion Bonner preparing a slab for casting. Fall, 1959.

Collecting a Shark—1960

Marion collecting a shark using the plaster slab method. The specimen is now in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.

George Sternberg Letter—1961

This note expresses George's disappointment at being retired by the college.

Click on the image for a better look and transcript.

Fossil Hunting—1961

Marion Bonner working on a Xiphactinus skull with his daughter, Melanie.

Vincent Bonner in Spiker—1965

Vincent Bonner (son of Orville Bonner) and Melanie Bonner in the back of “Spiker,” a 1949 Chevy Suburban fossil wagon.

Collecting a Complete Mosasaur—Summer, 1967

Orville, Chuck, Dana, and Melanie Bonner with Kari and Travis Askey, (Clare Jane Bonner’s children) at the large quarry site of a near perfect Platecarpus mosasaur now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

“Spiker” Fossil Delivery—1967

Dana, Marion and Chuck Bonner getting ready to take “Spiker” to deliver fossils to the Denver Natural History Museum.