Deep Alberta: Fossil Facts and Dinosaur DigsUniversity of Alberta, 07/02/2007 - 200 من الصفحات Alberta is well known for its fossil treasures, and author John Acorn is as keen on the long-dead creatures of Alberta as he is on the living. Here, John features 80 of the most noteworthy fossils, fossil locations, and fossil hunters from this most palaeontological of provinces. There's more to the story of "deep Alberta" than dinosaurs, but dinosaur fans will find all their favourite beasts here as well -- from Edmontosaurus to Tyrannosaurus rex, and everything in-between. Then there are the surprises, such as the world's oldest pike, the discovery of a venomous mammal, and the fossils found in such unlikely places as Edmonton and Calgary. Prepared with the collaboration of palaeontologists around Alberta, and the world-renowned Royal Tyrrell Museum, this is a book that is long overdue, and that deserves a place on everyone's bookshelf. |
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Atrociraptor The New Raptor | 13 |
Basilemys A Very Large Turtle | 14 |
Lundbreck Falls and the Black Beauty | 89 |
Mammoths and Mastodons | 90 |
The Milk River | 93 |
Mosasaurs The Giant Marine Lizards | 94 |
Multituberculates Common but Extinct Mammals | 97 |
Myledaphus A Guitar Fish | 98 |
New Fossil Names | 101 |
The Oil Sands | 102 |
Bison As Opposed to Buffalo | 17 |
The Blindman River | 18 |
Belonostomus A Pointyheaded Fish | 21 |
Barnum Brown Fossil Hunter | 22 |
Burbank Alberta | 25 |
Calgary and the Things That Lay Beneath It | 26 |
Extinct Camels | 29 |
The Canadian Shield | 30 |
Centrosaurus A Herding Horned Dinosaur | 33 |
Champsosaurus A Kind of NonCrocodile | 34 |
Chasmosaurus A ShortHorned Dinosaur | 37 |
North American Cheetahs | 38 |
The Bow Valley at Cochrane | 41 |
Cretaceous Lizards | 42 |
Albertas Crocodilians | 45 |
Dawn Redwood Trees | 46 |
Devils Coulee and its Dinosaur Nests | 49 |
Didelphodon A Sort of Primitive Possum | 50 |
Dinosaur Provincial Park | 53 |
Dromaeosaurus A Snappy Little Raptor | 54 |
The Drumheller Badlands | 56 |
Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park | 58 |
Dunkleosteus A Very Scary Fish | 61 |
Edmonton A Modest Sort of Dinosaur Graveyard | 62 |
Edmontosaurus Edmontons Duckbilled Dinosaur | 65 |
Edmontonia Edmontons Other Dinosaur | 66 |
Feathered Dinosaurs | 69 |
Fossil Frogs | 70 |
Gar The Fish | 73 |
Horn Corals | 74 |
How Do You Know Where To Dig? | 77 |
Hypacrosaurus Less than the Ultimate Dinosaur | 78 |
The Kleskun Hills | 81 |
Lambeosaurus Lambes Dinosaur | 82 |
Leptoceratops A Hornless Horned Dinosaur | 85 |
Albertas Lions | 86 |
Ornithomimids The Bird Mimics | 105 |
Pachyrhinosaurus The Thicknosed Dinosaur | 106 |
Palaeontology in Alberta | 109 |
Pantodonts Giant Palaeocene Mammals | 110 |
Parasaurolophus A Longheaded Duckbill | 113 |
Parksosaurus Parks Dinosaur | 114 |
The Worlds Oldest Pike | 116 |
Plants of the Ornithomimid Quarry | 118 |
Plesiadapis A Weird Early Primate | 121 |
Plesiosaurs The Sea Serpents of the Mesozoic | 122 |
Primitive Plants | 125 |
Pterosaurs The Flying Reptiles | 126 |
Fossil Salamanders | 129 |
Sandy Point | 130 |
Saurornitholestes A Raptor | 133 |
Shortfaced Bear | 134 |
Since the Ice Age | 137 |
Snakes of the Dinosaur Times | 138 |
Softshelled Turtles | 141 |
Stegoceras | 142 |
The Sternberg Family | 145 |
Sedimentology the Science of Sediments | 146 |
Sturgeon A Living Fossil Fish | 149 |
Styracosaurus A Classic Alberta Dinosaur | 150 |
Trace Fossils | 153 |
Troodon The Smart Dinosaur | 154 |
Triceratops The Threehorned Face | 157 |
Tyrannosaurus or T rex | 158 |
The Venomous Mammal | 161 |
Glossary | 163 |
References and Further Reading | 167 |
Key Figures in Alberta Palaeontology | 169 |
Image Credits | 173 |
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