FossilDAWG Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Back in July 2013 I visited the Canadian Museum of Nature. Their vertebrate fossil collection is probably rivaled (in Canada) only by the Royal Tyrrell Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum. I've got lots of photos, but unfortunately I misplaced my notes. I can get some IDs from the museum web site but they don't list everything, so if people recognize anything and let me know I'll have 48 hrs to edit and add IDs. To start, here are some marine Cretaceous exhibits. First up, an elasmosaur that was collected on the Puntledge River, Vancouver Island. Pretty intimidating teeth on this one. The turtle is Archelon ischyros. A couple more views of the Archelon: Here is an unusual mosasaur, Kourisodon puntledgensis, also from Vancouver Island: Platecarpus coryphaeus, a very large mosasaur from Kansas. The champosaur skull is a Terminonaris robusta from the Carrot River in Saskatchewan. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 They also had a sampling of Cretaceous fish. I saw little in the way of invertebrates, except for this Coon Creek crab, Avitelmessus grapsoideus: 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 Now on to the dinosaurs. First up, an ankylosaur skull and thagmatizer: A nice assortment of ceratopsians: And a reconstruction: 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 They also had a diversity of hadrosaurids: And tyrannosaurids. First Daspletosaurus: And Tarbosaurus: I believe this is a T. rex skull: And some reconstructions: 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 A nice raptor: A coelosaur, and a reconstruction: One more skeleton: A comparison of dinosaur dentitions: Some flying dinosaurs. First some Archaeopteris casts: Also Hesperornis: And a pterosaur: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 Some fresh water Cretaceous critters. A champosaur: A soft shelled turtle: Some other turtles: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 (edited) They also had a variety of Tertiary mammals. First some brontotheres/titanotheres: A horse: An oreodont: Some other mammals: Edited January 17, 2016 by FossilDAWG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 A sabertooth: They had a display on whale evolution, with primitive whales from Pakistan. Three species represent the terrestrial ancestor of whales, a primitive aquatic species, and a more advanced aquatic species: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 (edited) A modern Blue Whale: Edited January 17, 2016 by FossilDAWG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 And finally, some mineral displays: And that's all, folks! Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Wow, Don...thanks for the tour. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoWilliam Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Wow!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Thanks for the tour, Don! Love to get there myself someday. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I am impressed in particular by the early whale sequence! Not something I have ever come across before. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfossilcollector Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I definitely need to go there. Thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pterodactyl Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Those are some awesome looking displays! "Welcome...To Jurassic Park!" -Richard Attenborough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptor Lover Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Very impressive museum! Thanks for the tour Don "Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you" Job 12:8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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