Deep Alberta: Fossil Facts and Dinosaur Digs

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University 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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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
Index
177
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John Acorn is a writer, broadcaster, and biologist. In 2008, he received NSERC's Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion. He lives in Edmonton with his wife Dena and sons Jesse and Ben.

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