Posts treating: "Canada"
Monday, 01 January 2024
This image is of a placoderm (bottom-feeding fish) fossil aka Bothriolepis canadensis (Whiteaves,
1880) on display at Mace Brown Museum of Natural History
(August 2017). It was found in Quebec, Canada and dates to the Devonian Period (380 million years ago).
The
Mace Brown Museum of Natural History is located at the College of
Charleston, 202 Calhoun Street, 2nd Floor, Charleston, South Carolina
29424.Learn more at their blog: http://blogs.cofc.edu/macebrownmuseum/
This picture shows an interesting fossil. It is an Amecystis laevis (Raymond, 1921) which is a cystoid. It was found in Bobcaygeon Formation of Simcoe County, Ontario Canada. It
dates to the Middle Ordovician Period.
The picture was taken in June 2023 on the first floor of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. USA.Learn more about this at Smithsonian Department of Paleobiology Collections USNM 436990:http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/374f71859-2372-4bba-82be-10cf2329d45a
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Hylonomus lyelli, Ancestor of all dinosaursThe fossil cliffs at Joggins are one of Canada's gems, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, you can visit to see our ancient world frozen in time. Preserved in situ is a snapshot of an entire food chain of a terrestrial Pennsylvanian Coal Age wetland.The outcrop holds fossil plant life — including impressive standing lycopsid trees that formed the
Dendrerpeton acadianum, an extinct amphibianOne of the best Canadian fossil finds stems from a random boulder picked up on the beach near the town of Joggins, Nova Scotia. Inside were the bones of a fully articulated skeleton of Dendrerpeton acadianum, a Temnospondyli from the Lower Pennsylvanian. These little cuties belong to an extinct genus of amphibians who loved wet, swampy wetlands
Nootka Fossil Field Trip. Photo: John FamThe rugged west coast of Vancouver Island offers spectacular views of a wild British Columbia. Here the seas heave along the shores slowly eroding the magnificent deposits that often contain fossils. Just off the shores of Vancouver Island, east of Gold River and south of Tahsis is the picturesque and remote Nootka Island.This is the land of the proud
This fierce predator with the luxurious coat is Smilodon fatalis — a compact but robust killer that weighed in around 160 to 280 kg and was 1.5 - 2.2 metres long.Smilodon is a genus of the extinct machairodont subfamily of the felids. It is one of the most famous prehistoric mammals and the best known saber-toothed cat. Although commonly known as the saber-toothed tiger, it was not
Chelonia. Schildkröten by Ernst Haeckel, 1904Care for some tarantula with that walrus? No? how about some Woolly mammoth?While eating study specimens is not de rigueur today, it was once common practice for researchers in the 1700-1880s. The English naturalist, Charles Darwin belonged to an elite men's club dedicated to tasting exotic meats. In his first book, Darwin wrote almost three times
Dr. David Evans, Hadrosaurs & OrnithomimidsJoin us for a VIPS Zoom Lecture with Dr. David Evans to learn about dinosaur discoveries on Vancouver Island. A Hadrosauroid dinosaur is a rare occurrence and further evidence of the terrestrial influence in the Upper Cretaceous, Nanaimo Group, Vancouver Island — outcrops that we traditionally thought of as marine from years of collecting
Qikiqtania wakei, a fishapod & relative to tetrapodsYou will likely recall the amazing tetrapodomorpha fossil found on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic in 2004, Tiktaalik roseae. These were advanced forms transitional between fish and the early labyrinthodonts playfully referred to as fishapods — half-fish, half-tetrapod in appearance and limb morphology. Up to that point, the
Dall's PorpoiseThese delightfully friendly and super smart fellows are Dall's porpoise. In the Kwak̓wala language of the Kwakiutl or Kwakwaka'wakw, speakers of Kwak'wala, of the Pacific Northwest, a blowhole is known as a ka̱'was, whether on a dolphin (porpoise) or whale and a porpoise is known as a k̓ulut̕a. In the Pacific Northwest, we see many of their kind — the shy, blunt-nosed
Stemec suntokum, Sooke FormationThe diving bird you see here is Stemec suntokum, a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, British Columbia, Canada.We all dream of finding new species, and new fossil species in particular. This happens more than you think. As impossible as it sounds, it has happened numerous times at many fossils sites in British Columbia including Sooke on Vancouver Island.The
This fierce predator with the luxurious coat is Smilodon fatalis — a compact but robust killer that weighed in around 160 to 280 kg and was 1.5 - 2.2 metres long.Smilodon is a genus of the extinct machairodont subfamily of the felids. It is one of the most famous prehistoric mammals and the best known saber-toothed cat. Although commonly known as the saber-toothed tiger, it was not
This fierce predator with the luxurious coat is Smilodon fatalis — a compact but robust killer that weighed in around 160 to 280 kg and was 1.5 - 2.2 metres long.Smilodon is a genus of the extinct machairodont subfamily of the felids. It is one of the most famous prehistoric mammals and the best known saber-toothed cat. Although commonly known as the saber-toothed tiger, it was not
Dendrerpeton acadianum, an extinct amphibianOne of the best Canadian fossil finds stems from a random boulder picked up on the beach near the town of Joggins, Nova Scotia. Inside were the bones of a fully articulated skeleton of Dendrerpeton acadianum, a Temnospondyli from the Lower Pennsylvanian. These little cuties belong to an extinct genus of amphibians who loved wet, swampy wetlands
Canada's early history, like all nations, is written in her rock. The ground we walk upon includes some of the oldest rocks on the planet. While you and I were not there to witness it, our planet formed a little over 4.5 billion years ago when a massive collection of dust and gas, the leavings of our newly formed Sun, swirled and spun, gathering into a molten liquid sphere. Half a
Murdered & Missing Children Art by Roy VickersYou may be seeing orange shirts and #215 & #everychildmatters in the news, especially today as it is Canada Day. You likely know about the Residential School System in Canada — and also the USA. You will have heard of the deaths and unmarked graves of children. We weep for them as a nation. And you likely feel sadness or outrage for these events
Pterocephalia norfordi, McKay GroupA lovely Pterocephalia norfordi trilobite from Upper Cambrian, Furongian strata of the McKay Group, East Kootenay Region, southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The McKay Group has been explored extensively these past few years by Chris New and Chris Jenkins of Cranbrook, British Columbia. Together, these two avid trilobite enthusiasts have opened
A wreck with tales to tell at Naikoon, Haida Gwaii. The islands have gone by many names. To the people who call the islands home, Haida Gwaii means “island of the people,” it is a shortened version of an earlier name, Haadala Gwaii-ai, or “taken out of concealment.” Back at the time of Nangkilslas, it was called Didakwaa Gwaii, or “shoreward country.” By any name, the islands are a place
My next series of posts about the Geology of the National Parks Through Pictures is from a trip we took over the summer of 2017 up to Canada and back down through Montana to hit a bunch of the glacial parks in the area. These include two Canadian National Parks.
You can find more Geology of the National Parks Through Pictures as well as my Geological State Symbols Across America series at my [...]