Collecting a Fish-Within-a-FishSummer, 1982
Jean Stramel, Marion Bonner, Logan Bonner, Dana Bonner, and Chuck Bonner clustered around the quarry of a fourteen-foot Xiphactinus that swallowed a six-foot Gillicus. This fossil is now on display at the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, Canada.
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Dana Fossil Dance1982
Neal Larsen and Dana Bonner enjoying a bit of levity in the fossil beds.
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Fossil Picnic1983
Marion Bonner, Jean Stramel, Logan Bonner, and Chuck Bonner taking a lunch break in the fossil fields.
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Just Another Vertebrate1986
Ataullah Zia, Marion Bonner, and John Stoss filming at Lake Scott State Park for “Just Another Vertebrate,” a film about Marion for KOOD Public Television.
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Logan's Mosasaur Discovery1987
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| Five-year-old Logan Bonner found a large Tylosaurus mosasaur skull on the edge of a chalk bluff. Ask Chuck about the whole story. |
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Here’s Logan with his Tylosaurus in Grandpa Bonner’s workshop. |
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Asleep In Their Beds1987
Chuck and Marion Bonner relaxing after collecting a Saurodon fish skull found by Barbara and now on display in the Keystone Gallery.
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Pregnant Plesiosaur1987-1988
Marion and Chuck Bonner hard at work collecting a plesiosaur with a fetus inside.
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The main body section all wrapped up and ready to go. |
Barbara Shelton and Marion Bonner with the stretched-out pregnant plesiosaur in Marion’s metal round-top shed. The specimen is currently in storage at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. |
Planet Ocean Gurus1992
Brad Matsen and Ray Troll, writer and artist for the Planet Ocean book, in which the Bonner family and Keystone Gallery are prominently featured.
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Chuck Bonner Collecting1994
Chuck collecting the Xiphactinus fish tail for the specimen on display in Keystone Gallery.
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Brent and Josh1995
Brent Bristow (Letty Bonner’s son) and his son Josh in the fossil beds.
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Kari and Her Boys1997
Kari Driscoll (Clare Jane Bonner’s daughter) with sons Sean and Zach having lunch in the fossil beds.
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“Mosafest” Fossil Hunt1998
Logan Bonner, Barbara Shelton, Kirk Johnson, Gary Staab, Patrick Troll, Chuck Bonner, Ray Troll, Michelle Troll, Corrina Troll, Ive Eddy, and Sue Eddy on a fossil hunt during the Bonner “Mosafest.”
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Yale Fossil Hunt2001
Chuck Bell, Chuck Bonner, Marilyn Fox, and Julia Clarke on a fossil hunt looking for old O.C. Marsh fossil bird sites for Julia’s Ph.D. dissertation on Ichthyornis.
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Fossil Bed Photography2001
Barbara Shelton, the photographer, finally gets her photo taken next to a natural arch in the fossil beds. Barbara’s arch photography has been on going since 1983 and fossil bed photo documentation since 1978.
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