Hypacrosaurus
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Hypacrosaurus is an extinct genus of duckbill dinosaur similar in appearance to Corythosaurus. Like Corythosaurus, it had a tall, hollow rounded crest, although not as large and straight. It is known
Hypacrosaurus Royal Tyrrell
Skeletal mount of H. altispinus at Canadian Museum of Nature
H. stebingeri holotype skull
Hindfoot of H. altispinus
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.
Hypacrosaurus
…vertebrae and a partial pelvis (AMNH 5204), came from along the Red Deer River near Tolman Ferry, Alberta, Canada, from rocks of what is now known as the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (early Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous). Brown described these remains, in combination with other postcranial bones, in 1913 as a new genus that he…
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