topic:"Fossils" found 16 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Animals of the Burgess Shale : Yoho National Park, British Columbia

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

Published Date: 1988

Author: Environment Canada

Publisher: Environment Canada and Canadian Parks Service

Call Number: 04 E1a Pam

Author: Environment Canada

Publisher: Environment Canada and Canadian Parks Service

Published Date: 1988

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

Subjects: Burgess Shale; Yoho National Park; Fossils

Abstract: Pertains to a pamphlet detailing the animal species that have been discovered in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Located in Yoho National Park, the Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit that was originally founded by Charles Walcott. The pamphlet tells of Walcott’s history and the early beginnings following his findings, as well as the species that inhabited the area millions of years prior.

Notes: Front reads: Exquisitely detailed fossils found in layer of shale in Yoho National Park open a window on life on Earth 530 millions years ago

Accession Number: 2017.8683

Call Number: 04 E1a Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Banff area, Alberta

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

Published Date: 1927

Author: Warren, Percival S.

Publisher: Ottawa, F.A. Acland, printer

Call Number: 03.2 W25b Pam

Author: Warren, Percival S.

Responsibility: Percival S. Warren

Publisher: Ottawa, F.A. Acland, printer

Published Date: 1927

Physical Description: 3 preliminary leaves, 94 pages including frontispiece (plates I) [II]-VII plates, tables, folded map 25 cm.

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

Subjects: Geology; Banff; Paleontology; Fossils; Geography; Geological Survey of Canada

Abstract: Pertains to an in depth analysis of geological features in and around Banff, as well as a descriptive segment on new fossil species. The geological features pertains to both the mountains in and around Banff, as well as a separate discussion on economic geology.

Contents: Introduction (pg. 1); Physiography (pg. 4); General geology (pg. 4); Description of new species of fossils (pg. 44); Economic geology (pg. 93); Index to fossils (pg. 93)

Accession Number: 2017.8683

Call Number: 03.2 W25b Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Death trap : how a cave specialist and a paleontologist are piecing together Alberta's post-glacial fossil record by exploring mountain caves

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Published Date: 2013

Author: Wilson, Niki

Call Number: P

1 website

Author: Wilson, Niki

Responsibility: Niki Wilson

Published Date: 2013

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Caves; Fossils; Glaciers; Banff National Park; Jasper National Park; Canadian Rockies

Abstract: Pertians to the growing understanding of the fossil record in Alberta via exporation of caves

Notes: In Highline Magazine, Vol. 5, Iss. 2, Summer 2013, p. 40 - 44

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Highline website

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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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Drumheller, Badland

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: Item consists of one 16 mm motion picture pertaining to the Drumheller area of the Badlands in southern Alberta. Includes shots of dinosaur statues around the town, hoodoos, a fossil trail, and two men reassembling a partial fossil in the ground. The original label on the case reads "Drumheller, Ba…

Date Range: 1960

Reference Code: V190 / VI / NF - 26

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Film; Motion picture

1 image

Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M323 / S40 / V190

Series: VI : Retained file

Sous-Fonds: V190

Accession Number: 7436

Reference Code: V190 / VI / NF - 26

GMD: Film; Motion picture

Date Range: 1960

Physical Description: 1 motion picture (1 film reel: 186'): 16 mm, original, b&w, silent

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: Item consists of one 16 mm motion picture pertaining to the Drumheller area of the Badlands in southern Alberta. Includes shots of dinosaur statues around the town, hoodoos, a fossil trail, and two men reassembling a partial fossil in the ground. The original label on the case reads "Drumheller, Badland, Date: 1960, Camera B. Engler, Footage B&W 186 ft."

Subject Access: Badlands; Dinosaurs; Fossils; Hiking; Hoodoos; scenic; Scenery; Rivers

Geographic Access: Drumheller; Alberta

Language: English

Creator: Bruno Engler

Title Source: Original title kept

Processing Status: Processed

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The ecology of fossils

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

Published Date: 1981

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press

Call Number: 04 M19t

Responsibility: Edited by W.S. McKerrow

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press

Published Date: 1981

Physical Description: 384 pages

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

Subjects: Fossils; Science

Abstract: An illustrated textbook detailing the ecology of fossils throughout various time periods.

Contents: 1. Introduction / W. S. McKerrow -- 2. Classification of organisms / W. S. McKerrow -- 3. Precambrian / W.S. McKerrow -- 4. Cambrian / L. R. M. Cocks and W. S. McKerrow -- 4. Ordovician / L. R. M. Cocks and W. S. McKerrow -- 5. Silurian / L. R. M. Cocks and W. S. McKerrow -- 6. Devonian / R. Goldring -- 7. Carboniferous / W. H. C. Ramsbottom -- 8. Permian / W. H. C. Ramsbottom -- 9. Triassic / B. W. Sellwood -- 10. Jurassic / B. W. Sellwood -- 11. Cretaceous / W. J. Kennedy -- 12. Cenozoc / J. Taylor -- 13. Present day / J. Taylor

ISBN: 0262630869

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04 M19t

Collection: Archives Library

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Geology and Fossils

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Part Of: Bert Riggall fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 31 b&w, some captioned. The prints in this file pertain to various photographs of rock formations and fossils found in the Waterton and Akamina area of British Columbia.

Date Range: 1913 to 1946

Reference Code: V26 / III / B24 / PA - 1 to 31

Description Level: 5 / File

Part Of: Bert Riggall fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Series: III. Professional Photography: Topical Files

Reference Code: V26 / III / B24 / PA - 1 to 31

Date Range: 1913 to 1946

Physical Description: Photographs: 31 prints, b&w

Scope & Content: File consists of 31 b&w, some captioned. The prints in this file pertain to various photographs of rock formations and fossils found in the Waterton and Akamina area of British Columbia.

Subject Access: Geology, Fossils,

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: Wendy Ryan provided and identification for the following print:; PA - 13 Stromatolite. The earth's oldest fossils, 3.5 billion years old, found all through the Castle, Waterton, Glacier, Montana. Formed on the ocean floor, now found on the tops of mountains or where they have fallen into the valleys.; Riggall's Grandson John Russell provided idendifications on some photographs they are as follows:; PA - 20 to 21 The kid a Iris (girl) and Chris (brother) of the George and Bea Crosby family

Processing Status: Processed

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Geology and Fossils

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Part Of: Bert Riggall fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 8 b&w negatives. The negatives pertain to views of rock formations and fossils found in the Waterton and Akamina area of British Columbia..

Date Range: [ca.1904 to ca.1959]

Reference Code: V26 / III / B24 / NA - 1 to 8

Description Level: 5 / File

Part Of: Bert Riggall fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Series: III. Professional Photography: Topical Files

Reference Code: V26 / III / B24 / NA - 1 to 8

Date Range: [ca.1904 to ca.1959]

Physical Description: Negatives: 8 b&w

Scope & Content: File consists of 8 b&w negatives. The negatives pertain to views of rock formations and fossils found in the Waterton and Akamina area of British Columbia..

Subject Access: Geology, Fossils

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: The negatives in this file are not individually numbered. Storage Location: V26 / III / B19 / NA - 40 to V26 / VIII / E / NA - 2

Processing Status: Processed

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Invertebrate fossils

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

Published Date: 1952

Author: Moore, Raymond C., Lalicker, Cecil G., and Fischer, Alfred G.

Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.

Call Number: 04 M78i

Author: Moore, Raymond C., Lalicker, Cecil G., and Fischer, Alfred G.

Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.

Published Date: 1952

Physical Description: 766 pages

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

Subjects: Fossils; Invertebrate; Geology

Contents: 1. The nature of fossils -- 2. Foraminifera and radiolaria -- 3. Sponges and spongelike fossils -- 4. Coelenterates -- 5. Bryozoans -- 6. Brachiopods -- 7. Mollusks -- 8. Gastropods -- 9. Cephalopods -- 10. Pelecypods -- 11. Annelids and other worms -- 12. Arthropods -- 13. Trilobites -- 14. Ostracodes and other crustaceans -- 15. Chelicerates, myriapods, and insects -- 16. Echinoderms -- 17. Primitive attached echinoderms -- 18. Crinoids -- 19. Holothuroids -- 20. Starfishes -- 21. Echinoids -- 22. Graptolites and pterobranchs -- 23. Condonts

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04 M78i

Collection: Archives Library

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Lantern slides -- 1925-1931

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Part Of: Leonard Leacock fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slides depicting Rocky Mountain scenic views, mountains, wildlife, horse rides. Includes Banff, Yoho, Lake O'Hara, Banff-Jasper Highway and surrounding areas. Slides are a mix of colour and black & white photographs; some images are printed directly onto one pane of glass …

Date Range: 1925-1931

Reference Code: V353 / I / B / PS-1 to PS-40

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

42 images 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Leonard Leacock fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M372 / V353 / S24

Series: V353 / I : Photography

Sous-Fonds: V353

Sub-Series: V353 / I / B : Photography: lantern slides

Accession Number: 6756

Reference Code: V353 / I / B / PS-1 to PS-40

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: 1925-1931

Physical Description: 41 photographs : b&w and col. slides ; 10.2 x 8.2 cm

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slides depicting Rocky Mountain scenic views, mountains, wildlife, horse rides. Includes Banff, Yoho, Lake O'Hara, Banff-Jasper Highway and surrounding areas. Slides are a mix of colour and black & white photographs; some images are printed directly onto one pane of glass while others are transparencies on celullose film mounted between 2 glass panes. There is no order to the different mediums. Slides were accompanied with 7 typed text papers listing the slide numbers and details of the images. See Notes for list.

Notes: [1] Sahdow Lake [2] Summer scene in Banff [3] Eifell Lake (some of the Ten Peaks) [4] Pinnacle Mt. from Mt. Temple [5] Consolation Mts. Biden and Quadra [6] Un-named lake between Consolation Valley and Boom Lake [7] Clouds on Mt. Cathedral [8] Mt. Cathedral [9] Glacier on east sloped of Mt. Narao, near Wapta [10] Descending Mt. Narao [11] Mt. Cathedral Lake O'Hara [12] Mt. Cathedral near Lake O'Hara [13] Alpine Club House in Lake O'Hara meadows [14] Lake O'Hara [15] On shores of Lake Margaret [16] Waterfall in Opabin Pass, Mt. Biddle [17] Chateau Lake Louise [18] Twin Falls Yoho Park [19] Below Twin Falls [19a] Below Twin Falls [20] Below Twin Falls [21] On Burgess Pass Trail [22] President group from Burgess Pass trail [23] Hoodoos up Hoodoo Creek [24] Shadow Lake [25] Road up to Mt. Norquay [26] On the trail in winter [27] Winter in Banff [28] Cloud of ridge [29] On shore of Shadow Lake [30] A short rest [31] Shadow Lake [32] Bow River near Banff -- Mt. Borgeau [33] Mt. Rundle by moonlight -- Banff [34] A promise of spring -- Forty Mile Creek [35] Winter [36] Sheep country in the foothills [37] The Golden West [38] Banff Springs Hotel [39] Amid the glaciers -- Mt. Balfour [40] Mt. Temple