Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Geology of Alberta 1
6. Albanerpetontids, as We Say… 2
7. Ammonites and Ammolites 5
8. Albertosaurus, Alberta’s Dinosaur 6
9. Amber, Fossilized Tree Sap 9
10. Amia, The Bowfin 10
11. Atrociraptor, The New Raptor 13
12. Basilemys, A Very Large Turtle 14
13. Bison, As Opposed to Buffalo 17
14. The Blindman River 18
15. Belonostomus, A Pointy-headed Fish 21
16. Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter 22
17. Burbank, Alberta 25
18. Calgary, and the Things That Lay Beneath It 26
19. Extinct Camels 29
20. The Canadian Shield 30
21. Centrosaurus, A Herding Horned Dinosaur 33
22. Champsosaurus, A Kind of Non-Crocodile 34
23. Chasmosaurus, A Short-Horned Dinosaur 37
24. North American Cheetahs 38
25. The Bow Valley at Cochrane 41
26. Cretaceous Lizards 42
27. Alberta’s Crocodilians 45
28. Dawn Redwood Trees 46
29. Devil’s Coulee and its Dinosaur Nests 49
30. Didelphodon, A Sort of Primitive Possum 50
31. Dinosaur Provincial Park 53
32. Dromaeosaurus, A Snappy Little Raptor 54
33. The Drumheller Badlands 56
34. Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park 58
35. Dunkleosteus, A Very Scary Fish 61
36. Edmonton, A Modest Sort of Dinosaur Graveyard 62
37. Edmontosaurus, Edmonton’s Duck-billed Dinosaur 65
38. Edmontonia, Edmonton’s Other Dinosaur 66
39. Feathered Dinosaurs 69
40. Fossil Frogs 70
41. Gar, The Fish 73
42. Horn Corals 74
43. How Do You Know Where To Dig? 77
44. Hypacrosaurus, Less than the Ultimate Dinosaur 78
45. The Kleskun Hills 81
46. Lambeosaurus, Lambe’s Dinosaur 82
47. Leptoceratops, A Hornless Horned Dinosaur 85
48. Alberta’s Lions 86
49. Lundbreck Falls and the Black Beauty 89
50. Mammoths and Mastodons 90
51. The Milk River 93
52. Mosasaurs, The Giant Marine Lizards 94
53. Multituberculates, Common but Extinct Mammals 97
54. Myledaphus, A Guitar Fish 98
55. New Fossil Names 101
56. The Oil Sands 102
57. Ornithomimids, The Bird Mimics 105
58. Pachyrhinosaurus, The Thick-nosed Dinosaur 106
59. Palaeontology in Alberta 109
60. Pantodonts, Giant Palaeocene Mammals 110
61. Parasaurolophus, A Long-headed Duck-bill 113
62. Parksosaurus, Park’s Dinosaur 114
63. The World’s Oldest Pike 116
64. Plants of the Ornithomimid Quarry 118
65. Plesiadapis, A Weird Early Primate 121
66. Plesiosaurs, The Sea Serpents of the Mesozoic 122
67. “Primitive” Plants 125
68. Pterosaurs, The Flying Reptiles 126
69. Fossil Salamanders 129
70. Sandy Point 130
71. Saurornitholestes, A Raptor 133
72. Short-faced Bear 134
73. Since the Ice Age 137
74. Snakes of the Dinosaur Times 138
75. Soft-shelled Turtles 141
76. Stegoceras 142
77. The Sternberg Family 145
78. Sedimentology, the Science of Sediments 146
79. Sturgeon, A Living Fossil Fish 149
80. Styracosaurus, A Classic Alberta Dinosaur 150
81. Trace Fossils 153
82. Trace Fossils 154
83. Triceratops, The Three-horned Face 157
84. Tyrannosaurus or “T. rex” 158
85. The Venomous Mammal 161
86. Glossary 163
87. References and Further Reading 167
88. Key Figures in Alberta Palaeontology 169
89. Image Credits 173
90. Index 177