. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Dinosaurs; Paleontology. C H. Sternberg and G. F. Sternberg setting out on a reconnaissance of Dead Lodge Canyon, 1913. It was on this trip that the elder Sternberg found the skull of the spike-crested dinosaur (Styracosaurus albertensis). , No. 25441. visit, but found no vertebrate fossils worth collecting. However, he did observe bones that proved the presence of hooded duck-billed dinosaurs in the Judith River formation. This led him to some sound comments on the true nature of Leidy's Trachodon mirabilis (Sternberg, C. H., 1917, p. 112), which mi
. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Dinosaurs; Paleontology. C H. Sternberg and G. F. Sternberg setting out on a reconnaissance of Dead Lodge Canyon, 1913. It was on this trip that the elder Sternberg found the skull of the spike-crested dinosaur (Styracosaurus albertensis). , No. 25441. visit, but found no vertebrate fossils worth collecting. However, he did observe bones that proved the presence of hooded duck-billed dinosaurs in the Judith River formation. This led him to some sound comments on the true nature of Leidy's Trachodon mirabilis (Sternberg, C. H., 1917, p. 112), which might have been noted with profit by some of the con- temporary palaeontologists. After about two weeks he joined his other two sons, who were already at work in the Red Deer River badlands. The first task was to recaulk the seams of the scow. After that, camp was moved to a location below the mouth of "Sand" (Little Sandhill) Creek, in the heart of that part of the badlands known as Deadlodge Canyon. Here George L. Sternberg collecting a dinosaur skull fProsaurolophus) in the heart of the Little Sandhill Creek badlands, Red Deer River, 1914. The excavation can be seen just to the right of centre. , No. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Russell, Loris Shano, 1904-; Royal Ontario Museum. [Toronto : Printed at the University of Toronto Press]
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