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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks, burrows, cast-off pa
Andrewsarchus
Chirostenotes BW
Melanorosaurus readi steveoc
Velociraptor mongoliensis
Horseshoe Canyon Formation
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The Horseshoe Canyon Formation is a stratigraphic unit of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in southwestern Alberta. It takes its name from Horseshoe Canyon, an area of badlands near Drumheller.
1924 in paleontology
…Elliot Formation South Africa A species of the prosauropod Thecodontosaurus Thespesius edmontoni Sp. nov. Jr. synonym Gilmore Maastrichtian Horseshoe Canyon Formation Alberta A new species of Thespesius, now a synonym of Edmontosaurus regalis Velociraptor mongoliensis Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Osborn Campanian Djadochta…
Horseshoe Canyon Formation at Horsethief Canyon, near Drumheller. The dark bands are coal seams.
Contact (red arrow) between the underlying marine shales of the Bearpaw Formation and the coastal Horseshoe Canyon Formation. Coal beds (black bands) are common in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation and were formed in coastal swamps.
Sphaerotholus
Parksosaurus