Dinosaur hunting in western Canada (1966) (20333758944)

Title: Dinosaur hunting in western Canada

Identifier: dinosaurhuntingi00russ (find matches)

Year: 1966 (1960s)

Authors: Russell, Loris Shano, 1904-; Royal Ontario Museum

Subjects: Dinosaurs; Paleontology

Publisher: (Toronto : Printed at the University of Toronto Press)

Contributing Library: ROM - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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found another, even finer skeleton of the same horned dinosaur (Chasmo- saurus belli) as had been discovered the previous year near Steveville. Years later these two skeletons were mounted side by side in the National Museum of Canada. Other outstanding finds of the 1914 season were the well-preserved skull of a duck-billed dinosaur (Prosaurolophus maximus), the skull of another horned dinosaur (Centrosaurus apertus), the skeleton of a duck-billed dinosaur lacking the skull but showing excellent skin impressions, the incomplete skeleton of an armoured dinosaur (Euoplo- cephalus tutus), and the tail club of another armoured dinosaur. June of 1915 was spent by Sternberg and his two sons Charles and Levi along Milk River in southern Alberta. Also with the party was Gustav

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C M. Sternberg and L. Sternberg starting to uncover the skeleton of a horned dinosaur (Chasmosaurus belli), Oldman formation. Red Deer River, 1914. N.M.C., No. 29055. Lindblad, of whom more later. The first World War was on, and C. M. Sternberg had the amusing experience of being mistaken for a law oflicer searching for deserters along the International Boundary. The first dis- appointment of the trip was the discovery that the richly fossiliferous patch of badlands exposing rocks of the Two Medicine formation was actually on the Montana side of the Boundary. From Coutts the party moved east- ward to the Milk River valley in what is now the Comrey district. It was here that Dawson had found dinosaur remains in 1874. Sternberg's descrip- tion (Sternberg, 1917, pp. 123-125) of the rocks exposed here, which we now assign to the Foremost and Oldman formations, is excellent, but he found no specimens worth collecting. Years later some good dinosaur material was obtained northeast of here, but the area searched by Sternberg has so far yielded nothing but dissociated bones. By the end of June Sternberg was back on the Red Deer River. High water delayed the start of operations, but eventually camp was set up. Prospecting was carried out along almost the whole length of Deadlodge 19

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