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A vanished world : the dinosaurs of western Canada

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Alternative: Dinosaurs of western Canada

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Series: Natural history series, no 4

By

Russell, Dale A.
Swibold, Susanne M.
Kish, Eleanor M.

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Book

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Published material

Publication info

Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada, 1977

Notes

Contents: Fossil skeletons -- Shadows of the past: The great trough -- Mileposts in time -- The geography of a vanished world -- A park for dinosaurs: Prairie badlands -- From sediments to landscapes -- Petrified vestiges of life -- Reptilian giants -- A matter of survival -- Environments on an ancient delta: The cliffs of Drumheller -- Wetland forests -- Denizens of ancient swamps -- A coastal plain -- An ancient forest of broad-leaved trees -- Hardwoods and dinosaurs -- The last dinosaurs: A trough that ceased to sink -- Life on a subtropical floodplain -- A doomed panorama -- The end of an era: On the land -- In the sea -- The testimony of the Earth -- From the depths of space.

Issued also in French under title: Le monde disparu : des dinosaures de l'ouest canadien.