dinosaur man Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Hi I’m wondering are there any Sauropods found in Canada (Alberta)? Wouldn’t it be possible to have Sauropods in Canada? Is there anything found? Thank you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Much To cold https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258838561_Canada's_largest_dinosaurs_ichnological_evidence_of_the_northernmost_record_of_sauropods_in_North_America 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur man Posted February 16, 2020 Author Share Posted February 16, 2020 Thank you @Troodon!! I have one more question after reading this. Have Sauropods been found in Canada from the late Cretaceous? Since Alberta’s Formations are also the same time as Alamosaurus lived in the United States? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 I refer you to the first paragraph of the paper in my initial post...not aware of any changes Until recently, the skeletal and ichnological record of sauropod dinosaurs in North America has been limited to areas south of the Canada-U.S. border. Palaeogeographic barriers and palaeoenvironmental preferences have previously been cited to explain the absence of sauropods in Canada. However, recent discoveries of footprints and a trackway from southeastern British Columbia represent the first record of sauropods in Canada, and the northern-most record of sauropods in North America. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur man Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 Ahh , Thank you @Troodon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoNoel Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 While there are no derived sauropod remains known from Canada, the McCoy Brook fm. in Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy has provided some early Jurassic sauropodomorph body fossils. These have been long been referred to as Ammosaurus, but have been given the informal name Fendusaurus. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur man Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 4 minutes ago, PaleoNoel said: While there are no derived sauropod remains known from Canada, the McCoy Brook fm. in Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy has provided some early Jurassic sauropodomorph body fossils. These have been long been referred to as Ammosaurus, but have been given the informal name Fendusaurus. @PaleoNoel Thank you!!, yeah, just this summer I went there and checked everything out, amazing place!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleoworld-101 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Apart from the Sauropodomorph material from Nova Scotia that PaleoNoel mentioned, the only evidence of Canadian sauropods comes from tracks found in British Columbia. The first occurrence was from coal mines within the Mist Mountain Formation of southeastern British Columbia, near Sparwood (trackways referred to Brontopodus isp.), and i have measured one of the original trackway molds that was taken from the mine. The age of these tracks is either latest Jurassic or more likely earliest Cretaceous. Additional sauropod tracks were also recently found from the Aptian-aged Gething Formation of the "Six Peaks" track site in northeast British Columbia (these are now the northernmost record of sauropods in North America, the paper Troodon linked is out of date). No bones have been reported thus far, and I am not aware of any sauropod material (either tracks or bones) coming from Alberta. 3 "In Africa, one can't help becoming caught up in the spine-chilling excitement of the hunt. Perhaps, it has something to do with a memory of a time gone by, when we were the prey, and our nights were filled with darkness..." -Eternal Enemies: Lions And Hyenas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur man Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 6 hours ago, Paleoworld-101 said: Apart from the Sauropodomorph material from Nova Scotia that PaleoNoel mentioned, the only evidence of Canadian sauropods comes from tracks found in British Columbia. The first occurrence was from coal mines within the Mist Mountain Formation of southeastern British Columbia, near Sparwood (trackways referred to Brontopodus isp.), and i have measured one of the original trackway molds that was taken from the mine. The age of these tracks is either latest Jurassic or more likely earliest Cretaceous. Additional sauropod tracks were also recently found from the Aptian-aged Gething Formation of the "Six Peaks" track site in northeast British Columbia (these are now the northernmost record of sauropods in North America, the paper Troodon linked is out of date). No bones have been reported thus far, and I am not aware of any sauropod material (either tracks or bones) coming from Alberta. Thank you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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