Dave Hone
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And so they're a commercial outfit, right?
So they dig stuff up to sell it.
Um, but they also make costs and sell them.
Um, this, oh, I brought my others.
I do have a cost, a cost of one of Steve Stan's teeth.
Um, so like you can buy costs of Stan's teeth.
You could buy costs of the head.
Um, you could buy the whole skeleton.
It's a famous, you see Stan in a whole bunch of different places.
There's a, there's a stand just up the road from here at Oxford.
Oxford's got a cost of Stan.
Oh, um,
I was just at Lime Regis, a famous fossil locality in the south of the UK a couple of weeks ago.
One of the fossil stores has a skull of Stan in the window.
Stan turns up again and again and again.
Yes, we'd call that the overburden, the extra stuff overburden.
That's all the rock that's sitting above the layer with our fossil in.
And when you're lucky, that's a foot of sandstone and you shovel it out in an hour.
And I've seen guys in South America, there was a team in Argentina.
I think it was my old boss, Olly Railhut, showed me this.