Deep Alberta

Fossil Facts and Dinosaur Digs

John Acorn

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Year: 2007
• eBook ISBN: 9780888648518
• Subtopic: Natural History

Alberta is well known for its fossil treasures, and author John Acorn is as keen on the long-dead creatures of Alberta as he is on the living. Here, John features 80 of the most noteworthy fossils, fossil locations, and fossil hunters from this most palaeontological of provinces. There's more to the story of "deep Alberta" than dinosaurs, but dinosaur fans will find all their favourite beasts here as well -- from Edmontosaurus to Tyrannosaurus rex, and everything in-between. Then there are the surprises, such as the world's oldest pike, the discovery of a venomous mammal, and the fossils found in such unlikely places as Edmonton and Calgary. Prepared with the collaboration of palaeontologists around Alberta, and the world-renowned Royal Tyrrell Museum, this is a book that is long overdue, and that deserves a place on everyone's bookshelf.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Geology of Alberta
• Albanerpetontids, as We Say…
• Ammonites and Ammolites
• Albertosaurus, Alberta’s Dinosaur
• Amber, Fossilized Tree Sap
• Amia, The Bowfin
• Atrociraptor, The New Raptor
• Basilemys, A Very Large Turtle
• Bison, As Opposed to Buffalo
• The Blindman River
• Belonostomus, A Pointy-headed Fish
• Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter
• Burbank, Alberta
• Calgary, and the Things That Lay Beneath It
• Extinct Camels
• The Canadian Shield
• Centrosaurus, A Herding Horned Dinosaur
• Champsosaurus, A Kind of Non-Crocodile
• Chasmosaurus, A Short-Horned Dinosaur
• North American Cheetahs
• The Bow Valley at Cochrane
• Cretaceous Lizards
• Alberta’s Crocodilians
• Dawn Redwood Trees
• Devil’s Coulee and its Dinosaur Nests
• Didelphodon, A Sort of Primitive Possum
• Dinosaur Provincial Park
• Dromaeosaurus, A Snappy Little Raptor
• The Drumheller Badlands
• Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park
• Dunkleosteus, A Very Scary Fish
• Edmonton, A Modest Sort of Dinosaur Graveyard
• Edmontosaurus, Edmonton’s Duck-billed Dinosaur
• Edmontonia, Edmonton’s Other Dinosaur
• Feathered Dinosaurs
• Fossil Frogs
• Gar, The Fish
• Horn Corals
• How Do You Know Where To Dig?
• Hypacrosaurus, Less than the Ultimate Dinosaur
• The Kleskun Hills
• Lambeosaurus, Lambe’s Dinosaur
• Leptoceratops, A Hornless Horned Dinosaur
• Alberta’s Lions
• Lundbreck Falls and the Black Beauty
• Mammoths and Mastodons
• The Milk River
• Mosasaurs, The Giant Marine Lizards
• Multituberculates, Common but Extinct Mammals
• Myledaphus, A Guitar Fish
• New Fossil Names
• The Oil Sands
• Ornithomimids, The Bird Mimics
• Pachyrhinosaurus, The Thick-nosed Dinosaur
• Palaeontology in Alberta
• Pantodonts, Giant Palaeocene Mammals
• Parasaurolophus, A Long-headed Duck-bill
• Parksosaurus, Park’s Dinosaur
• The World’s Oldest Pike
• Plants of the Ornithomimid Quarry
• Plesiadapis, A Weird Early Primate
• Plesiosaurs, The Sea Serpents of the Mesozoic
• “Primitive” Plants
• Pterosaurs, The Flying Reptiles
• Fossil Salamanders
• Sandy Point
• Saurornitholestes, A Raptor
• Short-faced Bear
• Since the Ice Age
• Snakes of the Dinosaur Times
• Soft-shelled Turtles
• Stegoceras
• The Sternberg Family
• Sedimentology, the Science of Sediments
• Sturgeon, A Living Fossil Fish
• Styracosaurus, A Classic Alberta Dinosaur
• Trace Fossils
• Troodon, The “Smart” Dinosaur
• Triceratops, The Three-horned Face
• Tyrannosaurus or “T. rex”
• The Venomous Mammal
• Glossary
• References and Further Reading
• Key Figures in Alberta Palaeontology
• Image Credits
• Index