Future paleontologist's find of a 50 my old softshell turtle

[Richard W. Travsky]

Note, this is the archive capture as the original is paywalled

 

https://trib.com/news/local/history/article_771ca464-7173-47d2-b4bb-2d1f08966f6f.html

 

https://archive.ph/XYQHz

 

Touren Pope took a few days off school the second week of February, but this was not just some regular family vacation.

 

Pope headed up to Casper from Elko, Nev., on Monday to provide a helping hand with the work being done on a 50-million-year-old turtle fossil he named "Lil Timmy" at Casper College's Tate Geological Museum.

 

The fossil of a soft shell turtle was found by the sixth-grader Pope back in July while rock hounding with his grandparents near Lander. After calling the Bureau of Land Management, the Tate Museum was involved because they have permits to extract from federal land.

 

Pope was invited back to Lander in August to help with the excavation, and now he has had a chance to help clean up the fossil.

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