Field work 2008

Hesham Sallam asking a local paleontologist for a direction (From left to right: Patrick O'Connor, Haytham el-Atfy, local paleontologist and Hesham Sallam)

Our camp site

Erik Seiffert looking for micro-vertebrate fossils

Haytham el-Atfy (left), Patrick O'Connor (middle) and Joe Sertich (right) finding a dinosaur vertebra

In front; Patrick O'Connor (left) and Joe Sertich (right) puting bones back together in order to reconstruct the crocodile skeleton, while in the back; Erik Seiffert (left)and Haytham El-Atfy (right) looking for more pieces of the same crocodile.

Haytham El-Atfy jacketing dinosaur limb bones

From left to right; Erik Seiffert, Joe Sertich, Patrick O'Connor and Haytham El-Atfy are cataloging the fossil collection

2008 crew members; from left to right: Patrick O'Connor, Joe Sertich, Yassen El-Saay (MU driver), Haytham Al-Atfy, Hesham Sallam, Erik Seiffert and Abdo Zedan (Fayum camp driver)

Field work 2010

Joe Sertich (left), Hesham Sallam (middle) and Erik Seiffert (right) exposing interesting skull fragments

Patrick O'Connor (left), Joe Sertich (middle) and Mohamed Youssef (right) putting a big dinosaur humerus back together.

Joe Sertich (left), Khaled Behzad (right) chiseling under a big turtule jacket in order to flip it.

Khaled Behzad (left), Mohamed Youssef (middle) and Joe Sertich (right) flipping the big jacket.

Joe Sertich (left) Hesham Sallam (middle) Mohamed Youssef (right) doing a dry sieving process at Erik's Hill.

Erik Seiffert (left) and Mohamed Youssef (right) looking for tiny fossils.

Mohamed Youssef (left) and Joe Sertich (right) cataloging the fossil collection at Mansoura University.

2010 crew members; from left to right: Abdo Zedan (Fayum camp driver), Yassen El-Saay (MU driver), Hesham Sallam, Erik Seiffert, Patrick O'Connor, Joe Sertich, Mohamed Youssef and Khaled Behzad on top of the car.

The first MUVP showcase at the Geology Department, Mansoura University.