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" What dinosaurs walked around Canada?


Plenty of dinosaur species inhabited Canada throughout the Mesozoic, too many to name here.

The Dinosaur Park Formation is one particularly interesting formation located in southern Alberta. Numerous dinosaur species have been uncovered in the area, including the tyrannosaurids Daspletosaurus sp. and Gorgosaurus liberatus, dromaeosaurids (“raptors”) like Saurornitholestes, pachycephalosaurids like Stegocerus validum, hadrosaurs like Corythosaurus casuarius, ceratopsians such as Centrosaurus apertus and Styracosaurus albertensis and ankylosaurs such as Euoplocephalus tutus.

You may recall the new ornithomimid, Rativates evadens, described by McFeeters et al. in early 2016.

The Oldman Formation is another prominent formation home to numerous dinosaur species located in southern Alberta.

You’ll find most dinosaurs found in Canada are from the late Cretaceous. Although the Morrison Formation extends to southwestern Canada, most fossils associated with the formation were located in the US. The McCoy Brook Formation in Nova Scotia, however, is home to numerous dinosaur trackways including Otozoum, Anomoepu, and Grallator, which are titles associated with specific types of trackways (clear indication that these dinosaurs did indeed walk around in Canada) from unknown species. They indicate that the area was once inhabited by sauropodmorphs (possibly Anchisaurus polyzelus) and small coelophysid-like theropods during the early Triassic and late Jurassic.
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Paleoart by James Kuether "

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