Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Its Spring. A glorious day. prairie Crocus are in bloom, the Meadowlarks are singing and the sky full of migrating waterfowl. First outing this year into the badlands. Headed out just north of Jenner, Alberta and then a trek east along the Red Deer River. Age is Campanian ( Late Cretaceous) about 72 million mya. All terrestrial deposits. A 6 km cycle ride in and then hike another couple. About 3 hours looking for fossils. Its feast or famine. Some hoodoos sterile and then an area dripping with vertebrate fossils. This area also yields a few 'unknowns' All fossils catch and release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 A decent hadrosaur claw.. .foot ungual. Reflects the size of the hadrosaurs in these formations...a variety of species but not as large as in the younger Maastrichtian stage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Another claw...hand ungual. These are easily overlooked in the bone rubble as the shape is hard to distinguish. Arrows point to distal end. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 For some reason, one layer has a lot of theropod phalanges. Raptor, Tyrannosaur and Ornithomimid. Its not unusual for theropods to be found 'in bunches' in the Late Cretaceous 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 A couple more 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 A distal end of an orninthomid phalange. Found the other half 20 meters down a rill in a hoodoo. Climbed back up to reunite them. They will likely 'separate' again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Not much of a tooth day. One gracile Tyrannosaur tooth. One Raptor. Both nice serrations and colour. However...that was it other than an Ankylosaur tooth. No Ceratopsian or Hadrosaur teeth. No Croc teeth...no Myledaphus teeth 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Nice finds! I wish I had dino material locales near me! Those teeth look real sweet! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Lots of limb bones on surface. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 'Exploded' dinos littering the ground. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Somebody's rib. Not sure why but ribs not as common proportionately here as in other locales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 An Ankylosaur tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Not sure. A chevron? Quite delicate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Ankylosaur vertebra. Possible ankylosaur toe bone as found in Ankylosaur debris and they are shaped like this and rugose texture 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Neck vertebra. Similar to Tyrannosaur. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Tyrannosaur phalange high in a hoodoo. I saw something reflecting the sunlight and only found it by scanning the hoodoo with binocs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Some limb bones. When bones together usually more in the matrix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Weird bone and bone impression. About 80 cm in length. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Certatopsian caudal vertebra. And another fractured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Hadrosaur vertebra between other larger bones. And another Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Champsosaur, Croc scutes, fused turtle vertebrae, etc. at microsite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 All catch and release, even the teeth? Is that because you already have tons of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 A couple of larger 'things'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ridgehiker Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Another exploding dino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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