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A) The lowermost member of the Oldman Formation B) The uppermost member of the Belly River Group C) A marine shale above the Bearpaw Formation D) A low-rank coal mine in southern Saskatchewan
A) Bearpaw Group B) Oldman Group C) Western Interior Seaway D) Judith River Group
A) Albian B) Campanian C) Turonian D) Maastrichtian
A) Between 85.0 and 80.2 million years ago B) Between 70.1 and 65.5 million years ago C) Between 90.5 and 88.0 million years ago D) Between 76.5 and 74.4 million years ago
A) Alluvial and coastal plain environments B) Glacial and periglacial environments C) Volcanic caldera environments D) Deep marine and abyssal environments
A) Lethbridge Coal Zone B) Bearpaw Formation C) Judith River Formation D) Oldman Formation
A) Belly River Formation B) Oldman Formation C) Bearpaw Formation D) Milk River Formation
A) Mammalian teeth only B) Ammonite shells C) Dinosaur skeletons D) Pterosaur wings exclusively
A) Preserved remains of soft tissues B) Volcanic glass shards C) Pure amber deposits D) Meteorite fragments
A) Birds and bats B) Amphibians and trilobites C) Fish, turtles, and crocodilians D) Whales and dolphins
A) Dinosaur Provincial Park B) Red Deer River Park C) Deadlodge Canyon D) Berry Creek
A) International Geological Monument B) National Marine Sanctuary C) Protected Biosphere Reserve D) UNESCO World Heritage Site
A) Beneath the Bearpaw Sea B) In the mountains to the west C) Along the shores of the Milk River D) In the badlands that flank the Red Deer River
A) George Mercer Dawson B) Lawrence Lambe C) Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux D) Joseph Burr Tyrrell
A) A duck-billed dinosaur B) The "grandfather of the buffalo" C) A woolly mammoth D) A giant prehistoric bear
A) Thomas Chesmer Weston B) George Mercer Dawson C) Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux D) Henry Fairfield Osborn
A) Milk River B) Red Deer River C) Berry Creek D) Deadlodge Canyon
A) Edward Drinker Cope B) Joseph Burr Tyrrell C) George Mercer Dawson D) Lawrence Lambe
A) Albertosaurus B) Tyrannosaurus C) Laelaps D) Gorgosaurus
A) Thomas Chesmer Weston B) Henry Fairfield Osborn C) Lawrence Lambe D) Joseph Burr Tyrrell
A) Thomas Chesmer Weston B) George Mercer Dawson C) Henry Fairfield Osborn D) Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux
A) Red Deer River B) Milk River C) Bow River D) South Saskatchewan River
A) Joseph Burr Tyrrell B) Lawrence Lambe C) Edward Drinker Cope D) Thomas Chesmer Weston
A) Judith River Formation B) Oldman Formation C) Belly River Formation D) Bearpaw Formation
A) Early Triassic B) Early Jurassic C) Mid-Cretaceous D) Late Permian
A) Volcanic ash from northern plains B) Erosion of the Canadian Shield to the east C) Erosion of the mountains to the west D) Glacial deposits from the north
A) Strictly southward B) Northward and northwestward C) Eastward and southeastward D) Westward and southwestward
A) Tethys Sea B) Bearpaw Sea C) Hudson Sea D) Sundance Sea
A) Panthalassa Seaway B) Atlantic Seaway C) Western Interior Seaway D) Boreal Seaway
A) Coal beds of the Lethbridge Zone B) Sandstones of the Oldman Formation C) Limestone reefs of the Milk River Formation D) Marine shales of the Bearpaw Formation
A) About 30 metres (100 ft) B) About 150 metres (490 ft) C) About 70 metres (230 ft) D) About 300 metres (980 ft)
A) Aeolian dune environments B) Deep marine shelf environments C) Glacial moraine environments D) Fluvial channel environments
A) Low-rank coal seams and siltstones B) Pure white chalk and limestone C) Massive to laminated organic-rich mudstones D) Fine- to medium-grained, crossbedded sandstones
A) Overbank and floodplain environments B) Offshore marine environments C) Subglacial trench environments D) Estuarine and deltaic environments
A) Coarse-grained conglomerate sandstones B) Thick beds of massive granite C) Massive to laminated, organic-rich mudstones D) Red chalk and marl
A) Volcanic pumice and quartz veins B) Root traces and thin beds of bentonite C) Coprolites and sulfur nodules D) Fossilized marine shells and amber
A) Red Deer Coal Seam B) Berry Creek Coal Member C) Lethbridge Coal Zone D) Deadlodge Coal Horizon
A) Lignite beds alternating with marine shales B) Several seams of low-rank coal interbedded with mudstones and siltstones C) Pure anthracite coal layers with thick sandstone caps D) Bituminous coal mixed exclusively with limestone
A) A thick bed of marine limestone B) A regional disconformity C) A massive layer of pure volcanic ash D) An angular unconformity caused by major mountain building
A) By their fossilized marine invertebrate content B) By the complete absence of rocks in the Oldman Formation C) By differences in their overall geological age of 20 million years D) By petrographic and sedimentologic differences
A) They have never been found in either formation B) They are equally abundant in both formations C) They are abundant in the Oldman Formation and absent in the Dinosaur Park Formation D) They are rare in the Oldman Formation but abundant in the Dinosaur Park Formation
A) Alberta B) Manitoba C) British Columbia D) Saskatchewan
A) Edward Drinker Cope and Henry Fairfield Osborn B) George Mercer Dawson and his colleagues C) Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux and the Blackfoot Confederacy D) Thomas Chesmer Weston and Lawrence Lambe exclusively
A) Four B) Two C) Three D) One
A) Volcanic activity B) A return to the lower fauna C) The extinction of all dinosaurs D) A third distinct fauna
A) Corythosaurus B) Centrosaurus C) Vagaceratops irvinensis D) Euoplocephalus tutus
A) Lambeosaurus altidens B) Lambeosaurus magnicristatus C) Lambeosaurus ornatissimus D) Lambeosaurus lambei
A) Coombs B) Eberth C) Penalski D) Mallon
A) Coombs B) Mallon C) Penalski D) Eberth
A) 2010 B) 2018 C) 2023 D) 2019
A) ~40m B) ~0m C) ~16-30m D) ~3-8m
A) ~40m B) ~3-8m C) ~0m D) ~27-31m
A) ~3-8m B) ~0m C) ~40m D) ~16-30m
A) ~3-8m B) ~16-30m C) ~27-31m D) ~0m
A) ~0m B) ~27-31m C) ~40m D) ~3-8m
A) Corythosaurus casuarius B) Styracosaurus albertensis C) Centrosaurus apertus D) Euoplocephalus tutus
A) Sauropod B) Pterosaur C) Corythosaurus D) Theropod
A) Carnivores B) Microscopic plankton C) Omnivores D) Megaherbivores
A) A well-defined Centrosaurus apertus B) An adult Chasmosaurus belli C) A fully named Triceratops horridus D) An unnamed Pachyrhinosaurus-like taxon
A) No ornithopod remains at all B) At least one indeterminate thescelosaurid specimen C) Dozens of complete Thescelosaurus skeletons D) Only adult Iguanodon bones
A) Only juvenile hadrosaurs B) Less common hadrosaurs like Brachylophosaurus or Parasaurolophus C) The most abundant adult Edmontosaurus D) Exclusively lambeosaurines
A) Microscopic dust particles B) Exactly five inches across C) Giant meters-wide pieces D) Sub-centimeter fragments
A) Royal Tyrrell Museum grounds B) Writing-on-Stone C) Devil's Coulee D) Cypress Hills
A) Giant ammonites B) Trilobites C) Brachiopods D) Pisidiid clams
A) Sodium chloride B) Hydrochloric acid C) Basic calcium carbonate D) Iron oxide
A) Artificial industrial acids B) Citric acid from native fruits C) Sulfuric acid from rainfall D) Naturally occurring acids
A) Bonebed 50 B) Bonebed 99 C) Bonebed 1 D) Bonebed 12
A) In every single bonebed B) No C) Always D) Yes
A) Tooth marks B) Bite punctures from insects C) Claw marks D) Pathological bone growths
A) Ceratopsian B) Tyrannosaurid C) Avimimid D) Hadrosaurid
A) Tail feathers B) Skulls C) Footprints D) Teeth
A) Aquatic B) Arboreal C) Terrestrial D) fossorial
A) Snakes B) Lizards C) Frogs D) Turtles
A) Large birds B) Sharks C) Crocodylians D) Whales
A) Cretorectolobus olsoni B) Albertochampsa C) Leidyosuchus D) Cteniogenys sp. cf. antiquus
A) Champsosaurus B) Albertochampsa C) Cteniogenys D) Ischyrhiza
A) Parasaniwa B) Estesesox C) Leidyosuchus D) Belonostomus
A) Leidyosuchus B) Champsosaurus C) Helodermatids D) Albertochampsa
A) No, it is a mammal B) Yes C) No, it is a fish D) No, it is a turtle
A) Newts B) Nautiloids C) Necrosaurids D) Nannosaurs
A) Saurophaganax B) Socognathus C) Spinosaurus D) Stegosaurus
A) ?Exostinus B) ?Varanids C) ?Helodermatids D) ?Teiids
A) Hammerhead shark B) Carpet shark C) Bull shark D) Mackerel shark
A) Carpet shark B) Gar C) Sturgeon D) Sclerorhynchid
A) Chimaera B) Carpet shark C) Sclerorhynchid D) Hybodont shark
A) Ray B) Sturgeon C) Chimaera D) Gar
A) Carpet shark B) Salmon C) Pike D) Guitarfish
A) Sturgeon B) Gar C) Chimaera D) Ray
A) A sturgeon B) A chimaera C) A guitarfish D) A shark
A) Carpet shark B) Rhino Ray C) Electric ray D) Sawfish
A) Holostean fish B) Teleost fish C) Chondrichthyans D) Acipenseriformes
A) Arotus hieroglyphus B) "Acipenser albertensis" C) Lepisosteus occidentalis D) Anchiacipenser acanthaspis
A) Arotus hieroglyphus B) Anchiacipenser acanthaspis C) Acipenser albertensis D) Lepisosteus occidentalis
A) Myledaphus bipartitus B) Arotus hieroglyphus C) Ischyrhiza mira D) Enchodus petrosus
A) The salmon B) The pike C) The gar D) The tarpon
A) A characin B) A pike C) An elopomorph D) A chimaera
A) A pike B) A characin C) A gar D) A sturgeon
A) A salmonid B) An otophysan C) An osteoglossomorph D) A guitarfish
A) Estesesox foxi B) Paratarpon apogerontus C) Cretophareodus alberticus D) Acronichthys sp.
A) Enchodus gladiolus B) Arotus hieroglyphus C) Oldmanesox canadensis D) Lepisosteus occidentalis |