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Dinosaurs of Alberta: New

Discoveries and Research

Philip J. Currie

Dept. Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Barnum Brown1910-1915

Dinosaur Provincial Park

UNESCO World

Heritage Site

Designation 1979

Dedication ceremony

June 19, 1980

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (Opened in 1985)

Dinosaur Provincial Park

Alberta, Canada

Established 1955

UNESCO World Heritage List 1979

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University of Alberta

baby ceratopsian

Quarry Q255

Philip J. Currie, University of Alberta, Biological Sciences

Chasmosaurus

Cover by

Michael Skrepnick

OrnithomimusTMP 95.110.1

Science 2012

OrnithomimusZelenitsky et al. 2012

75 million year old

insects in amber

from

southern Alberta

McKellar et al. 2011

2009

Q254

UALVP 52531

Dinosaur Provincial Park

Painting by Julius Csotonyi from Zelenitsky et al. 2012

Barbule melanosomes

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Saurornitholestes

langstoni Sues 1974

Saurornitholestes langstoni UALVP 55700

UALVP 55700

Saurornitholestes

Dinosaur Expo 2016

Tokyo, Japan

Saurornitholestes langstoni

UALVP 55700

CT scan

Saurornitholestes

langstoni

Histological thin

sections of long

bones

UALVP 55700

Saurornitholestes langstoni UALVP 55700

Saurornitholestes langstoni UALVP 55700

negative Time of Flight Secondary ion mass spectrometry