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Dr Jim Martin a few years ago was in the Antartica and discovered fossils that dated some 60-70 million years go. Recently Dr. Martin and several others returned from Antartica with the bones of a baby plesiosaur they had recovered from that continent. On December 13th the three were honored by the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology at the Museum of Geology with the presentation of the Department of Defense Antartica Service Medal. Dr. Martin, Dr. John Sawyer, and Mr. Wayne Thompson were honored by the National Science Foundation Antartica Research Expeditions.

Don Roosa and I attended the recognition for Dr. Martin's discovery of Anartica fossils at the School of Mines some years ago. Don, Herb Coe and I discovered a mosasaur along the Missouri at Iona about 1958. The School of Mines under the direction of Harold Martin and Dr. Green from the Museum of Geology excavated this twenty foot specimen and brought it back to the basement in the Museum. The Museum has the skeleton of a long-necked plesiosaur from Salzman's flat along the Missouri River near Iona and it is the main exhibit in the Museum of Geology.

The baby plesiosaur, Salzman plesiosaur, and mosasaur were living in about the same 60-70 million year period: Cretacious.

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Approximately 70million years ago on a "floating" continent a baby plesiosaur died. Wednesday December 13, 2006, 6:41 M S T at the Museum School of Mines and Technology the shroud was lifted on the bones of this baby.

The hands of Dr. Jim Martin early resident nearIgloo, S. Dak. revealed a missing link to a fossil relative found on the Salzman flats on the Missouri River near Iona, S. Dakota. Dr. Martin of the paleontology department School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, S. D. along with Dr. John Sawyer, and Mr. Wayne Thompson were presented the Department of Defense Antartica Service Medal by the National Science Foundation Antartic Research Expedition.

A Paleontologist never lets the dead past bury its dead. Just a few feet from the baby bones unveiled was the tail end of the Salzman long-necked plesiosaur fossil.

If time does tell, can you wait?
Lowdon