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Was hiking this past weekend and found an outcrop that I can only really describe as a trashbin of fossils. Its a small 10m x10m x 0.5m deposit that looks like an oyster bed. Upon further inspection it is full of 1000's of turtle shell fragments, bones, teeth and claws. In just an hour or so of poking around I found what I think are -5 therapod claws (3 are pictured and one crumbled when I disturbed it) -two ceratopsian teeth -three ray teeth -hundreds, maybe thousands of turtle shell fragments. No exaggeration, every piece of the outcrop was littered with them. Nothing bigger than 10cm x 10 cm -Lots of small tooth fragments, some have serrations and others do not -Lots of bone fragments. Once again, like the shell fragments, nothing bigger than 5 or 10 cm Location: near Lethbridge Alberta Canada (Chin reservoir) Formation: Foremost or Oldman 78.5-76.5 Ma The outcrop is on the edge of an irrigation reservoir and will be flooded in the next few years as the level of the reservoir is being raised. I'm not as concerned with identification of the fossils as I am making sure someone checks the outcrop out and documents it before it is flooded, If it is indeed worth documenting
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Well it was about time but we have a new Tyrannosaurid from the Foremost Formation of Alberta called Thanatotheristes degrootorum. Its part of a new clad called Daspletosaurini which comprises other Daspletosaurus spp. The foremost is a mid Campanian deposit. Its the first described Tyrannosaurid from this deposit. This represents the earliest stratigraphic occurrence of diagnostic tyrannosaurid material from Canada. Its a paywalled paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667119303611 From Wiki
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