Dinosaur Park Formation - Quiz
Dinosaur Park Formation
  • 1. What is the Dinosaur Park Formation?
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
  • 2. What is another name for the Belly River Group?
A) Bearpaw Group
B) Oldman Group
C) Western Interior Seaway
D) Judith River Group
  • 3. During which stage of the Late Cretaceous was the Dinosaur Park Formation deposited?
A) Albian
B) Campanian
C) Turonian
D) Maastrichtian
  • 4. Approximately how many million years ago was the formation deposited?
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
  • 5. In what environments was the Dinosaur Park Formation deposited?
A) Alluvial and coastal plain environments
B) Glacial and periglacial environments
C) Volcanic caldera environments
D) Deep marine and abyssal environments
  • 6. Which formation is directly below the Dinosaur Park Formation?
A) Lethbridge Coal Zone
B) Bearpaw Formation
C) Judith River Formation
D) Oldman Formation
  • 7. Which formation is directly above the Dinosaur Park Formation?
A) Belly River Formation
B) Oldman Formation
C) Bearpaw Formation
D) Milk River Formation
  • 8. What type of fossil remains are found in dense concentrations within the Dinosaur Park Formation?
A) Mammalian teeth only
B) Ammonite shells
C) Dinosaur skeletons
D) Pterosaur wings exclusively
  • 9. What are dinosaur skeletons in the formation often found with?
A) Preserved remains of soft tissues
B) Volcanic glass shards
C) Pure amber deposits
D) Meteorite fragments
  • 10. Besides dinosaurs, what other animal remains are abundant in the formation?
A) Birds and bats
B) Amphibians and trilobites
C) Fish, turtles, and crocodilians
D) Whales and dolphins
  • 11. After which location is the Dinosaur Park Formation named?
A) Dinosaur Provincial Park
B) Red Deer River Park
C) Deadlodge Canyon
D) Berry Creek
  • 12. Dinosaur Provincial Park is designated as what kind of site?
A) International Geological Monument
B) National Marine Sanctuary
C) Protected Biosphere Reserve
D) UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • 13. Where is the formation well exposed?
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
  • 14. Who provided the first recorded account of fossils in the area in 1871?
A) George Mercer Dawson
B) Lawrence Lambe
C) Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux
D) Joseph Burr Tyrrell
  • 15. Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux was shown bones of what animal by the Blackfoot Confederacy?
A) A duck-billed dinosaur
B) The "grandfather of the buffalo"
C) A woolly mammoth
D) A giant prehistoric bear
  • 16. Who reported official accounts of dinosaur bones in western Canada in 1874?
A) Thomas Chesmer Weston
B) George Mercer Dawson
C) Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux
D) Henry Fairfield Osborn
  • 17. Along which river did George Mercer Dawson make his 1874 discoveries?
A) Milk River
B) Red Deer River
C) Berry Creek
D) Deadlodge Canyon
  • 18. Who discovered the skull of a theropod in 1884?
A) Edward Drinker Cope
B) Joseph Burr Tyrrell
C) George Mercer Dawson
D) Lawrence Lambe
  • 19. As what genus did Edward Drinker Cope initially identify Joseph Burr Tyrrell's 1884 theropod skull?
A) Albertosaurus
B) Tyrannosaurus
C) Laelaps
D) Gorgosaurus
  • 20. Who named the 1884 theropod skull Albertosaurus in 1905?
A) Thomas Chesmer Weston
B) Henry Fairfield Osborn
C) Lawrence Lambe
D) Joseph Burr Tyrrell
  • 21. Who found rich fossil beds in Deadlodge Canyon and Berry Creek in 1889?
A) Thomas Chesmer Weston
B) George Mercer Dawson
C) Henry Fairfield Osborn
D) Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux
  • 22. Along which river did Thomas Chesmer Weston find fossil beds in 1889?
A) Red Deer River
B) Milk River
C) Bow River
D) South Saskatchewan River
  • 23. Who more completely surveyed the areas along the Red Deer River from 1897 until 1901?
A) Joseph Burr Tyrrell
B) Lawrence Lambe
C) Edward Drinker Cope
D) Thomas Chesmer Weston
  • 24. What was the Dinosaur Park Formation considered to be during the late 19th and early 20th century descriptions by Lambe and Osborn?
A) Judith River Formation
B) Oldman Formation
C) Belly River Formation
D) Bearpaw Formation
  • 25. What was the age previously assigned to the formation by Lambe and Osborn?
A) Early Triassic
B) Early Jurassic
C) Mid-Cretaceous
D) Late Permian
  • 26. From what source were the sediments of the Dinosaur Park Formation derived?
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
  • 27. In which direction did the river systems flow that deposited the formation?
A) Strictly southward
B) Northward and northwestward
C) Eastward and southeastward
D) Westward and southwestward
  • 28. What was the name of the large inland sea toward which the river systems flowed?
A) Tethys Sea
B) Bearpaw Sea
C) Hudson Sea
D) Sundance Sea
  • 29. The Bearpaw Sea was part of what larger seaway?
A) Panthalassa Seaway
B) Atlantic Seaway
C) Western Interior Seaway
D) Boreal Seaway
  • 30. What marine sediments were deposited on top of the Dinosaur Park Formation as the sea inundated the coastal plain?
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
  • 31. Approximately how thick is the Dinosaur Park Formation at Dinosaur Park?
A) About 30 metres (100 ft)
B) About 150 metres (490 ft)
C) About 70 metres (230 ft)
D) About 300 metres (980 ft)
  • 32. In what environment was the lower portion of the Dinosaur Park Formation laid down?
A) Aeolian dune environments
B) Deep marine shelf environments
C) Glacial moraine environments
D) Fluvial channel environments
  • 33. What primarily composes the lower portion of the formation?
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
  • 34. In what environments was the upper portion of the formation deposited?
A) Overbank and floodplain environments
B) Offshore marine environments
C) Subglacial trench environments
D) Estuarine and deltaic environments
  • 35. What primarily composes the upper portion of the formation?
A) Coarse-grained conglomerate sandstones
B) Thick beds of massive granite
C) Massive to laminated, organic-rich mudstones
D) Red chalk and marl
  • 36. What traces and beds are abundant in the upper portion's mudstones?
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
  • 37. What zone marks the top of the Dinosaur Park Formation?
A) Red Deer Coal Seam
B) Berry Creek Coal Member
C) Lethbridge Coal Zone
D) Deadlodge Coal Horizon
  • 38. What does the Lethbridge Coal Zone consist of?
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
  • 39. What separates the Dinosaur Park Formation from the underlying Oldman Formation?
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
  • 40. How are the Dinosaur Park and Oldman formations distinguished?
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
  • 41. How do articulated skeletal remains and bonebeds compare between the Oldman and Dinosaur Park formations?
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
  • 42. In which Canadian province is the Dinosaur Park Formation primarily located?
A) Alberta
B) Manitoba
C) British Columbia
D) Saskatchewan
  • 43. Geological Survey of Canada discoveries in the 1880s included work by whom?
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
  • 44. How many distinct faunas can the Dinosaur Park Formation be divided into at least?
A) Four
B) Two
C) Three
D) One
  • 45. What might the appearance of new, rare ornithischian species at the very top of the formation indicate?
A) Volcanic activity
B) A return to the lower fauna
C) The extinction of all dinosaurs
D) A third distinct fauna
  • 46. Which species is noted as potentially more common in the third fauna?
A) Corythosaurus
B) Centrosaurus
C) Vagaceratops irvinensis
D) Euoplocephalus tutus
  • 47. Which Lambeosaurus species may be more common in the third fauna?
A) Lambeosaurus altidens
B) Lambeosaurus magnicristatus
C) Lambeosaurus ornatissimus
D) Lambeosaurus lambei
  • 48. Who authored the biostratigraphy study of megaherbivores cited from 2019?
A) Coombs
B) Eberth
C) Penalski
D) Mallon
  • 49. Whose taxonomy of Euoplocephalus tutus is disputed in the text?
A) Coombs
B) Mallon
C) Penalski
D) Eberth
  • 50. What is the publication year of the taxonomy study by Penalski mentioned in the text?
A) 2010
B) 2018
C) 2023
D) 2019
  • 51. According to Penalski, at approximately what meter mark is Scolosaurus cutleri found?
A) ~40m
B) ~0m
C) ~16-30m
D) ~3-8m
  • 52. According to Penalski, at approximately what meter range is Platypelta coombsi found?
A) ~40m
B) ~3-8m
C) ~0m
D) ~27-31m
  • 53. According to Penalski, at approximately what meter range is Euoplocephalus tutus found?
A) ~3-8m
B) ~0m
C) ~40m
D) ~16-30m
  • 54. According to Penalski, at approximately what meter range is Anodontosaurus inceptus found?
A) ~3-8m
B) ~16-30m
C) ~27-31m
D) ~0m
  • 55. According to Penalski, at approximately what meter mark is Scolosaurus thronus found?
A) ~0m
B) ~27-31m
C) ~40m
D) ~3-8m
  • 56. Which taxon is separated into multiple taxa by Penalski (2018)?
A) Corythosaurus casuarius
B) Styracosaurus albertensis
C) Centrosaurus apertus
D) Euoplocephalus tutus
  • 57. What type of dinosaur is primarily used to characterize the lower part of the formation?
A) Sauropod
B) Pterosaur
C) Corythosaurus
D) Theropod
  • 58. What type of organism group is the focus of the megaherbivore biostratigraphy?
A) Carnivores
B) Microscopic plankton
C) Omnivores
D) Megaherbivores
  • 59. What type of ceratopsian taxon has been recovered from the formation?
A) A well-defined Centrosaurus apertus
B) An adult Chasmosaurus belli
C) A fully named Triceratops horridus
D) An unnamed Pachyrhinosaurus-like taxon
  • 60. What ornithopod specimen has been recovered from the formation?
A) No ornithopod remains at all
B) At least one indeterminate thescelosaurid specimen
C) Dozens of complete Thescelosaurus skeletons
D) Only adult Iguanodon bones
  • 61. Which hadrosaurs may have preferred the upland nesting grounds?
A) Only juvenile hadrosaurs
B) Less common hadrosaurs like Brachylophosaurus or Parasaurolophus
C) The most abundant adult Edmontosaurus
D) Exclusively lambeosaurines
  • 62. What size are the fragments of pebbly-textured hadrosaur eggshell reported from the formation?
A) Microscopic dust particles
B) Exactly five inches across
C) Giant meters-wide pieces
D) Sub-centimeter fragments
  • 63. The hadrosaur eggshell from the Dinosaur Park Formation is similar to that of which location in southern Alberta?
A) Royal Tyrrell Museum grounds
B) Writing-on-Stone
C) Devil's Coulee
D) Cypress Hills
  • 64. What shelled invertebrates are found in large numbers at the eggshell sites?
A) Giant ammonites
B) Trilobites
C) Brachiopods
D) Pisidiid clams
  • 65. What do the invertebrate shells release to protect the eggshells from dissolving?
A) Sodium chloride
B) Hydrochloric acid
C) Basic calcium carbonate
D) Iron oxide
  • 66. What acid would otherwise have dissolved the eggshells and prevented fossilization?
A) Artificial industrial acids
B) Citric acid from native fruits
C) Sulfuric acid from rainfall
D) Naturally occurring acids
  • 67. Which bonebed is noted as an especially productive source of young hadrosaur remains?
A) Bonebed 50
B) Bonebed 99
C) Bonebed 1
D) Bonebed 12
  • 68. Are the bones of juvenile hadrosaurs and fossil eggshell fragments preserved in association with each other?
A) In every single bonebed
B) No
C) Always
D) Yes
  • 69. What kind of marks were found on the valuable discovery of a small theropod dinosaur?
A) Tooth marks
B) Bite punctures from insects
C) Claw marks
D) Pathological bone growths
  • 70. What possible indeterminate remains are known from the formation regarding avimimids?
A) Ceratopsian
B) Tyrannosaurid
C) Avimimid
D) Hadrosaurid
  • 71. What is the basis for the new taxon of troodontid found in the upper part of the formation?
A) Tail feathers
B) Skulls
C) Footprints
D) Teeth
  • 72. What type of reptiles were choristoderes?
A) Aquatic
B) Arboreal
C) Terrestrial
D) fossorial
  • 73. What did small choristoderes look like?
A) Snakes
B) Lizards
C) Frogs
D) Turtles
  • 74. Larger types of choristoderes were superficially similar to which animals?
A) Large birds
B) Sharks
C) Crocodylians
D) Whales
  • 75. Which of the following is listed as a choristodere alongside Champsosaurus?
A) Cretorectolobus olsoni
B) Albertochampsa
C) Leidyosuchus
D) Cteniogenys sp. cf. antiquus
  • 76. Which crocodylian genus listed has remains found in the formation?
A) Champsosaurus
B) Albertochampsa
C) Cteniogenys
D) Ischyrhiza
  • 77. Which other crocodylian genus besides Albertochampsa is found in the formation?
A) Parasaniwa
B) Estesesox
C) Leidyosuchus
D) Belonostomus
  • 78. Which of the following lizards is listed as found in the formation?
A) Leidyosuchus
B) Champsosaurus
C) Helodermatids
D) Albertochampsa
  • 79. Is Labrodioctes listed as a lizard found in the formation?
A) No, it is a mammal
B) Yes
C) No, it is a fish
D) No, it is a turtle
  • 80. Which group of lizards starting with N is found in the formation?
A) Newts
B) Nautiloids
C) Necrosaurids
D) Nannosaurs
  • 81. Which lizard genus listed sounds similar to a known sauropod suffix but is under lizards?
A) Saurophaganax
B) Socognathus
C) Spinosaurus
D) Stegosaurus
  • 82. Which lizard taxon has a question mark in front of its name in the text?
A) ?Exostinus
B) ?Varanids
C) ?Helodermatids
D) ?Teiids
  • 83. What type of shark is Cretorectolobus olsoni?
A) Hammerhead shark
B) Carpet shark
C) Bull shark
D) Mackerel shark
  • 84. What type of fish is Ischyrhiza mira?
A) Carpet shark
B) Gar
C) Sturgeon
D) Sclerorhynchid
  • 85. What type of shark is Meristodonoides montanensis?
A) Chimaera
B) Carpet shark
C) Sclerorhynchid
D) Hybodont shark
  • 86. What type of fish is Myledaphus bipartitus?
A) Ray
B) Sturgeon
C) Chimaera
D) Gar
  • 87. What type of fish is Protoplatyrhina renae?
A) Carpet shark
B) Salmon
C) Pike
D) Guitarfish
  • 88. What family is 'Edaphodontidae' indet. classified as?
A) Sturgeon
B) Gar
C) Chimaera
D) Ray
  • 89. What type of shark is Archaeolamna kopingensis judithensis?
A) A sturgeon
B) A chimaera
C) A guitarfish
D) A shark
  • 90. What alternative common name is given for Protoplatyrhina renae in the fish section?
A) Carpet shark
B) Rhino Ray
C) Electric ray
D) Sawfish
  • 91. What group of fish represents sturgeons in the text?
A) Holostean fish
B) Teleost fish
C) Chondrichthyans
D) Acipenseriformes
  • 92. Which sturgeon species is listed in quotes in the text?
A) Arotus hieroglyphus
B) "Acipenser albertensis"
C) Lepisosteus occidentalis
D) Anchiacipenser acanthaspis
  • 93. Which sturgeon species features the specific epithet acanthaspis?
A) Arotus hieroglyphus
B) Anchiacipenser acanthaspis
C) Acipenser albertensis
D) Lepisosteus occidentalis
  • 94. Which of the following is a holostean fish listed in the formation?
A) Myledaphus bipartitus
B) Arotus hieroglyphus
C) Ischyrhiza mira
D) Enchodus petrosus
  • 95. What common name is given for Lepisosteus occidentalis?
A) The salmon
B) The pike
C) The gar
D) The tarpon
  • 96. What type of fish is Archaeosiilik sp.?
A) A characin
B) A pike
C) An elopomorph
D) A chimaera
  • 97. What type of fish is Primuluchara laramidensis?
A) A pike
B) A characin
C) A gar
D) A sturgeon
  • 98. What type of fish is Sivulliusalmo sp.?
A) A salmonid
B) An otophysan
C) An osteoglossomorph
D) A guitarfish
  • 99. Which of the following is listed as a pike found in the formation?
A) Estesesox foxi
B) Paratarpon apogerontus
C) Cretophareodus alberticus
D) Acronichthys sp.
  • 100. Which of these is another pike listed in the formation alongside Estesesox foxi?
A) Enchodus gladiolus
B) Arotus hieroglyphus
C) Oldmanesox canadensis
D) Lepisosteus occidentalis
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