Badlands of Alberta Near Drumheller 2
by John Twynam
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Badlands of Alberta Near Drumheller 2
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John Twynam
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A stark view of the Alberta badlands just outside the Royall Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller, Alberta on a dark and gloomy day.
Located on North Dinosaur Trail within Midland Provincial Park, the museum is situated in the middle of the fossil-bearing strata of the Late Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation. Just outside of the museum building is the Badlands Interpretive Trail, a 1.4 kilometre hiking trail used extensively by the museum public and school programs.
The building was designed to function both as a museum as well as a laboratory/research facility. As of 2020, the museum's collection held over 350 holotypes and approximately 160,000 cataloged fossils, providing the museum with the largest fossil collection in Canada; only about 0.5 percent of these are on display for the general public.
Approximately half of these items are fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period. The majority of these fossils originate from Alberta, with approximately 85 per cent of the fossils from the province being collected from the museum's fieldwork. In addition to the Cretaceous fossils of Alberta, the museum also holds a number of fossils from the Palaeocene of Alberta, the Palaeozoic of the Canadian Arctic, and in the Palaeozoic, Triassic, and Early Cretaceous of British Columbia.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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July 25th, 2021
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