>>2778998>t. PhD geologistme too, but vert paleo. Graduated Mines 1991 and did my postgrad with Grandin for the anatomy and zoo parts. Interned at MWC with Foster and worked at DMNS under Carpenter and Johnson. I now work in mining, but my schooling was dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation. I've worked with a few big names in dinosaurs, old school fools like Horner, Paul, and Chatterjee.
I don't really collect fossils personally, but my family and friends buy me fossils sometimes as gifts. Picrelate is my fossil shelf. I also have a decent Green River Formation collection of insects and fish. Just the sorts of stuff that a rando might dig off the road cuts on Douglass Pass.