topic:"Paleontology" found 107 records - Research Collections

Mountains once home to sea creatures

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Call Number: P

Physical Description: p.8

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Paleontology

Notes: In Mountain Guide, summer 1987

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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Take a sedimental journey into Alberta's past

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Call Number: P

Physical Description: p.3

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Paleontology

Notes: In Kananaskis Country Explorer, summer 1988

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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Larousse encyclopedia of the earth

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

Published Date: 1961

Publisher: New York : Prometheus

Edition: English ed

Call Number: 03.1 L32

Responsibility: Leon Bertin; foreword by Sir Vivian Fuchs; introduction by Carroll Lane Fenton

Edition: English ed

Publisher: New York : Prometheus

Published Date: 1961

Physical Description: 419p. : ill

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

Subjects: Burgess Shale; Geomorphology; Hydrology; Meteorology; Mineral resources; Paleontology

Notes: Translated . . . from La terre notre planete, first published in France

Accession Number: 1000

Call Number: 03.1 L32

Collection: Archives Library

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Reading the rocks : a biography of ancient Alberta

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

Published Date: 2003

Publisher: Calgary : Red Deer Press

Call Number: 03.1 Al1rtm

Responsibility: Royal Tyrrell Museum; Monique Keiran

Publisher: Calgary : Red Deer Press

Published Date: 2003

Physical Description: 120 p. : ill., maps

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

Subjects: Paleontology; Walcott, Charles Doolittle

Notes: Previous edition title: The land before us: the making of ancient Alberta; Includes reference to the Stephen Formation on Castle Mountain, the Burgess Shale

ISBN: 0-88995-283-4

Accession Number: 38000

Call Number: 03.1 Al1rtm

Collection: Archives Library

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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.