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Fossils

Bonner Family Fossil History

Photo Gallery

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All photos in this gallery ©Bonner Family

Collecting a Fish-Within-a-Fish - Summer, 1982Collecting a Fish-Within-a-Fish—Summer, 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.

Dana Fossil Dance - 1982Dana Fossil Dance—1982

Neal Larsen and Dana Bonner enjoying a bit of levity in the fossil beds.

Fossil Picnic - 1983Fossil Picnic—1983

Marion Bonner, Jean Stramel, Logan Bonner, and Chuck Bonner taking a lunch break in the fossil fields.

Just Another Vertebrate - 1986Just Another Vertebrate—1986

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.

Logan's Mosasaur Discovery—1987

Logan on Cliff Logan in Workshop
Five-year-old Logan Bonner found a large Tylosaurus mosasaur skull on the edge of a chalk bluff. Ask Chuck about the whole story. Here’s Logan with his Tylosaurus in Grandpa Bonner’s workshop.

Asleep In Their BedsAsleep In Their Beds—1987

Chuck and Marion Bonner relaxing after collecting a Saurodon fish skull found by Barbara and now on display in the Keystone Gallery.

DiggingPregnant Plesiosaur—1987-1988

Marion and Chuck Bonner hard at work collecting a plesiosaur with a fetus inside.

Wrapped UpThe main body section all wrapped up and ready to go.
In the WorkshopBarbara 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 Gurus - 1992Planet Ocean Gurus—1992

Brad Matsen and Ray Troll, writer and artist for the Planet Ocean book, in which the Bonner family and Keystone Gallery are prominently featured.

Chuck Bonner Collecting - 1994Chuck Bonner Collecting—1994

Chuck collecting the Xiphactinus fish tail for the specimen on display in Keystone Gallery.

Brent and Josh - 1995Brent and Josh—1995

Brent Bristow (Letty Bonner’s son) and his son Josh in the fossil beds.

Kari and Her Boys - 1997Kari and Her Boys—1997

Kari Driscoll (Clare Jane Bonner’s daughter) with sons Sean and Zach having lunch in the fossil beds.

"Mosafest" Fossil Hunt - 1998“Mosafest” Fossil Hunt—1998

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.”

Yale Fossil Hunt - 2001Yale Fossil Hunt—2001

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.

Fossil Bed Photography - 2001Fossil Bed Photography—2001

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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©2006 Keystone Gallery / Photos ©Barbara Shelton unless otherwise noted