VMNH Dino Days 1-2015

The Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, VA celebrated celebrated Dino Days from 9 am to 3 pm on January 24, 2015 with an animatronic Tyranasaurus rex, life-sized dinosaur skeleton casts and a flying Pteranadon with a 20 ft. wing span. The museum has material from the Carolina Solite Quarry in Cascade, VA.  The quarry is a Triassic site that has produced insect, plant and reptile fossils of 225 million year ago.  They also have the Boxley Quarry stromatolite that is nearly 6 ft. tall and is 500 million years old.  The NC Fossil Club was represented by Ruffin Tucker and Ramona Krailler. Parents, teachers and kids arrived early and a number stayed to the close at 3pm.  Ruffin and Ramona had a great time answering questions and received  expressions of appreciation for sharing their fossil collections and  fossil information.  The crowd was estimated at 500 attendees.