Field Experience: Mid-Season Update

The Tyrrell's Field Experience Program is only half-over (as of July 24, 1995), but already the summer is a smashing success. Our staff and participants have already:

• Uncovered an excellent post cranial skeleton of a hadrosaur which may turn out to be a Parasaurolophus
• Collected an almost complete, disarticulated Albertosaurus, one of only about a dozen specimens known in the world
• Discovered and collected a phenomenally well-preserved skeleton of an ornithomimid dinosaur, with a complete, articulated skull. This is only the fourth and most complete ornithomimid skull of this species in the World! It is also one of the best finds in Dinosaur Park in 20 years!
• Opened two of the three Centrosaurus bonebeds slated for excavation this summer. Geological work has indicated that the death assemblage in the two Centrosaurus bonebeds originally comprised 200 to 400 individuals, and that the flooding events that buried these assemblages were common occurrences.

We still have a few positions open for people who wish to participate in these excavations and stay at our field camp for a week or more in August, '95. Please contact the Bookings Officer at the Tyrrell Museum for further information.

This document was prepared by Kurt Armbruster, Edmonton, Alberta, and Wayne Hortensius, Calgary, Alberta, Canada for the Royal Tyrrell Museum Cooperating Society. All information © 1995 Royal Tyrrell Museum. All Rights Reserved.
Updated: July 29, 1995

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