Thomas Rich - Dinosaurs of Darkness: In Search of the Lost Polar World

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Dinosaurs of Darkness

SECOND EDITION

Life of the Past James O. Farlow, editor

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To the hundreds of
volunteers and the many others,
who, over the past four decades, did so much
in so many different ways
to help discover
the Dinosaurs of Darkness

He who calls what has vanished back again into being, enjoys a bliss like that of creating.

Barthold Georg Niebuhr, quoted by Loren Eiseley in Darwins Century, 1958

It is not necessary to hope in order to persevere.

Proverb

List of Excavators, 19842019

The more than seven hundred participants that assisted with the excavation of polar dinosaurs between 1984 and 2019. The number of times they participated is indicated by the number after their names. If one person had rendered all this assistance for the project, it would have required her or him to work seven days per week for far more than half a century (Rich, T. H. 2019. The 700. Deposits Magazine, issue 58, pp. 16).

Carl Adams 1

Nicki Agron-Olshina 1

Sarah Alkemade 3

William Alley 1

Trevor Almeida 1

Andrew Anastasious 2

Vicki Anceschi 3

Elaine Anderson 3

Marion Anderson 20

Philip Anderson 3

Rob Anderson 1

Keiichi Aotsuka 6

Helen Arcaro 2

Kate Archdall 2

Olivia Arnold 1

Rebecca Askew 1

Hala Assouad 3

Zeina Assouad 1

Gerry Atkin 2

Charis Atlas 1

Ravile Atlas 1

Julie Aulenback 1

Kevin Aulenback 2

Kerrie Auselbrook 2

Kenji Baba 1

Katch Bacheller 5

Warren Bachelor 1

Jeremy Baker Smith 1

Margaret Baldassa 1

Aiden Banfield 1

Nicola Barton Sanderson 11

Sofia Bartosewiz 1

Gavin Bastiensz 3

Kathleen Bastiensz 1

Trevor Beardsmore 1

Dianne Beevers 1

David Bell 1

Darren Bellingham 18

Robert Bender 1

Allan Berman 2

Shehean Bestel 3

Antoniette Beuche 1

Steven Bianchi 1

Steven Birch 3

Alistair Blaikie 3

Rachel Blakey 2

Ray Blanford 4

Jennifer Blom 1

Mark Blows 3

Melissa Boehm 1

Michelle Bold 1

April Boughton 1

Christina Boundy 2

Sue Bourton 1

Gillian Bowen 2

James Bowler 1

Claudia Bowman 1

David Bowman 1

Karina Bradley 1

Ross Bradley 1

Iris Brailey 2

James Bresnahan 1

Pip Brewer 1

Merice Briffa 1

Julie Brockley 2

Bruce Brown 1

Courtney Brown 1

Helen Brown Wilson 5

Linda Brownscombe 1

Jess Bruce 2

Alby Brugman 1

Connie Brugman 1

Glicoma Bryan 1

Ted Bryan 1

Christopher Bryans 1

Chris Brynes 1

Lucas Buchanan 1

Mark Bulow 1

Simon Burden 1

Joe Burgess 1

Mark Burrows 1

Mark Burroughs 1

Jeremy Burton 8

Francoise Bussat 1

Tracey Butcher 2

Ashley Butler 1

Karen Butler 1

Damien Byrne 1

Ali Calvey 3

Huugh Calvey 1

Tamara Camilleri 5

Megan Campbell 1

Oliva Campbell 2

Brad Carey 2

Hannah Carle 2

Ture Carlson 1

Laura Carnegie 1

Bree Cawsey 2

Neil Chalmers 1

Bernard Chapligin 1

Paul Chedgey 6

Win Chedgey 6

Andrew Cheesman 2

Kathy Chintoanu 1

Adrian Churkovich 1

Genevieve Cini 3

Giulia Cinquegrana 2

Barry Clarke 2

Kellie Clayton 1

Kim Cleaver 1

Craig Cleeland 1

Mike Cleeland 27

Pip Blackie Cleeland 9

Alice Clement 1

Roger Close 10

Andre Coffa 6

Peggy Cole 18

Rhyllis Collet 1

Michelle Colwell 9

Richard Connelly 1

Chris Consoli 1

Andrew Constantine 2

Geraldine Cook 1

Ian Cook 1

Louisa Cook 1

Martin Cook 1

Maria Copello 1

Caroline Copley 1

Tim Couch 3

Rachel Coulter 1

Cate Cousland 8

Anne Cowan 2

Sally Cowan 3

Julie Cox 1

Amber Craig 5

Karina Craig 1

Aida Crombach 1

Phillip Currie 1

Michael Curry 1

Stuart Cuxton 1

James Daniels 1

Jane Danis 1

Christopher Davey 1

Leeam Davey 1

Sarah Davey 1

Donald Davidson 1

David Davies 1

Shannon Davies 1

Kim Davis Douglas 11

Gila Davison 1

Michelle Day 1

Bernard de la Couer 2

Jennifer de Pagny 1

Coral Delarue 1

Anthony DellOste 1

David Denney 1

Greg Denney 1

Tess Devine-Hercus 1

Kerensa Dixon 1

Blaire Dobiecki 1

George Dobolovski 1

Michaela Dodyk 1

Bill Doherty 1

Alison Dorman 5

Kathryn Drury 1

Robert Duck 2

D. Duckett 1

James Dunaway 1

Louise Dunaway 1

Lori Duncan 1

Ruairidh Duncan 1

Astrid Dunkley 1

Boadie Dunlop 1

Fay Dunn 2

Leo Dwayne 1

Phillip Eagles 1

Peter Edwards 1

Sarah Edwards 8

Eve Eidelson 6

Gilbert Elliot 1

David Elliott 5

Kay Ellis 1

Yeshi Engelbogen 1

Caroline Ennis 14

Geoffrey Ennis 1

Susan Evans 1

Alan Evered 19

Nicole Evered 22

Anne Faithfull 1

Toni-Lee F. Millard 3

Clare Field 1

James Fife 1

Bridget Firth 3

Jerry Fischer 1

Erich Fitzgerald 1

Dirk Fleischer 1

Sue Flere 2

Astrid Fletcher 3

Laurie Fletcher 2

Warrick Foot 2

Rhiannon Foster 1

Nicole Fournie 1

Ben Francischelli 3

Al Fraser 6

Katrina Fry 3

Paula Fuge-Larsen 1

Simon Fulton 1

Priscilla Gaff 9

Kelly Gardiner 1

Norman Gardiner 20

Craig Garrett 1

Claire Garrick 1

Jillian Garvey 3

Tim Gatehouse 3

Ian Gault 1

Lachlan Gault 1

Patricia Gault 1

Torquil Gault 1

Uwe Gelius 1

Draga Gelt 4

Allison Gentry 1

Doris Gerald 1

Wayne Gertz 2

Fabrizio Giabardo 2

Christina Giatsios 2

James Gibbs 3

Dean Gilbert 6

Andrew Giles 3

Amanda Gordon 1

Harry J. Gorman 1

Lauren Graf 1

Rebeccah Graham 1

Ralph Granner 1

Mike Greenwood 10

Mark Griffith 1

Matilda Griffith 1

Amy Grimmer 1

Darren Grocke 1

James Gross 1

Catherine Grundy 1

Maurice Gubiani 3

Melissa Gunter 1

Timothy Hain 2

Andrew Haines 1

Mark Hallinan 1

Scott Handsacker 2

Cindy Hann 12

Greg Hann 1

Holden Hanna 1

Daphne Hardf 1

Marcus Hardie 1

R. Harrison 1

Darren Hastie 5

Chris Hastings 1

Nick Hayes 1