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Dinosaur Provincial Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site situated 220 kilometres (137 mi) east of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; or 48 kilometres (30 mi) northeast of Brooks.. The park is situated in the Red Deer River valley, which is noted for its striking badland topography, and abundance of dinosaur fossils.
The Dinosaur Park Formation is the uppermost member of the Belly River Group (also known as the Judith River Group), a major geologic unit in southern Alberta.It was deposited during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, between about 76.5 and 74.4 million years ago. [3]
A crocodile-like creature bit the neck of a flying dinosaur some 76 million years ago – and scientists have proof.. Archaeologists found the fossilized neck bone of the young pterosaur in Canada ...
The Hilda mega-bonebed lies within the bottom 25 m of the Dinosaur Park Formation. [5] Eberth, Brinkman and Barkas estimated that in the Hilda area, the Dinosaur Park Formation was almost 60 m thick between the over- and under-lying formations, but glacial activity and slumping had removed all but 43 m of this at the field site. [19]
Life restoration. The first Centrosaurus remains were discovered and named by paleontologist Lawrence Lambe in strata along the Red Deer River in Alberta.The name Centrosaurus means "pointed lizard" (from Greek kentron, κέντρον, "point" and sauros, σαῦρος, "lizard") and refers to, the series of small hornlets placed along the margin of their frills, not the nasal horns (which ...
Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre, Saskatchewan; Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta; Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park, British Columbia; Yoho National Park (Burgess Shale) UNESCO site, British Columbia
Proposals to relocate a popular dinosaur park to make way for a Gypsy and traveller site have been dropped, a council has confirmed. Middlesbrough's Teessaurus Park is a 10-acre plot of land that ...
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