topic:"paleontology" found 161 records - Research Collections

In search of ancient Alberta

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1998

Author: Huck, Barbara

Publisher: Winnipeg : Heartland

Call Number: 07.2 H86

Author: Huck, Barbara

Responsibility: Barbara Huck and Doug Whiteway

Publisher: Winnipeg : Heartland

Published Date: 1998

Physical Description: 287 p. : ill. (some col.), maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Geology; Geomorphology; Guidebooks; Paleontology

ISBN: 1-896150-00-4

Accession Number: 8-13-98 31,000

Call Number: 07.2 H86

Collection: Archives Library

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Biostratigraphy and Faunas of the Permian Ishbel Group, Canadian Rocky Mountains

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1968

Author: Logan, Alan; McGugan, Alan

Publisher: Journal of Paleontology

Call Number: 03.2 L78b PAM

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Author: Logan, Alan; McGugan, Alan

Responsibility: Alan Logan; Alan McGugan

Publisher: Journal of Paleontology

Published Date: 1968

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Paleontology; Geology; Geology - Alberta - Mountain Park; Research

Abstract: Pertains to Permian Ishbel group in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and attempts to unite the understanding of scattered occurances of fauna within these fossil records.

Notes: In Journal of Paleontology Vol. 42, No. 5 (Sep., 1968), pp. 1123-1139

Call Number: 03.2 L78b PAM

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Available online through JSTOR via subscription

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Deep Alberta : fossil facts and dinosaur digs

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2007

Author: Acorn, John

Publisher: Drumheller, Alta. : Royal Tyrrell Museum

Call Number: 04 A7d

Author: Acorn, John

Publisher: Drumheller, Alta. : Royal Tyrrell Museum

Published Date: 2007

Physical Description: xii, 186 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Paleontology; Dinosaurs; Fossils

Contents: Geology of Alberta map -- 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.

Notes: Based on the radio series "Deep Alberta", broadcast on CKUA Radio and sponsored by the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 9780888644817

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04 A7d

Collection: Archives Library

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A correlated history of the Universe

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2016

Publisher: Pan Terra Inc.

Edition: 4th

Call Number: 03 J25a Pam

Responsibility: created by Janke, Paul R.

Edition: 4th

Publisher: Pan Terra Inc.

Published Date: 2016

Physical Description: folded map 9"x4"

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Astronomy; Geology; Paleontology; Physics; Chemistry; Universe

Abstract: "A Correlated History of EARTH" now in 4th edition, includes plate tectonic maps, geostratigraphy, surface geology, ice ages, magnetic reversals, major volcanic flood basalts, orogenies, impact craters, classic sites, the fossil record, mass extinctions, genetic timescale..." -- "A Correlated History of Matter" extends the detailed timeline back to the big bang, includes fundamental particles and forces, periodic table of elements, table of earth minerals, table of earth rocks, meteorites, impact-generated rocks, breccias, shattercones, tektites, the K/T boundary clay, many color photos..." - author's website

Contents: A correlated history of Earth -- A correlated history of matter

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 03 J25a Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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The emergence of animals : the Cambrian breakthrough

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1990

Author: McMenamin, Mark A.S. and Schulte McMenamin, Dianna L.

Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press

Call Number: 03 M22t

Author: McMenamin, Mark A.S. and Schulte McMenamin, Dianna L.

Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press

Published Date: 1990

Physical Description: x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Fossils; Burgess Shale; Paleontology; Paleoecology Rodinia

Contents: Cambrian explosion -- Aliens here on earth? -- Mudeaters -- Small shelly fossils -- Golden spike -- Rifting of Rodinia -- Garden of Ediacara -- Ecological feedback and intelligence -- Precambrian oxygen -- Ecological chaos and innovation.