Geologist Mike Fix just completed preparation on a dinosaur bone from the Missouri dinosaur site. He’s been working on it for many months at the Sainte Genevieve Museum Learning Center Lab. The specimen is one of two coracoids that are part of a partial skeleton of a juvenile “Parrosaurus missouriensis” —the official state dinosaur. In fact, part of the evidence that this is a juvenile is the fact that the coracoids are not fused to the distal (far) end of the scapula (shoulder blade). There is a partial limb bone smashed up against this coracoid, and he doesn’t believe that these two bones can be separated. The partial skeleton and the prepared bones that have been removed from it are all on display at the Sainte Genevieve Museum Learning Center. Here are some photos of the coracoid that he took on Sunday, June 2. He will also do 3D scans of them and send Professor Peter Makovicky, who is in charge of the current excavations at the Missouri dino site.
