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Title: Dinosaur hunting in western Canada
Identifier: dinosaurhuntingi00russ (find matches)
Year: 1966 (1960s)
Authors: Russell, Loris Shano, 1904-; Royal Ontario Museum
Subjects: Dinosaurs; Paleontology
Publisher: (Toronto : Printed at the University of Toronto Press)
Contributing Library: ROM - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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In the summer of 1913, Sternberg, accompanied by his sons Charles and Levi and another assistant, Jack McGee, went to Drumheller, where he acquired a motor boat and had a scow built, big enough for two tents. With the scow in tow and son Charles at the tiller of the boat, they set off for the Steveville area, which they reached after two days of rather exciting travel. At the Steveville ferry they tied up the scow and had barely started to unload when a preliminary reconnaissance disclosed the skeleton of a large flesh-eating dinosaur (type of Gorgosaurus libratus). This discovery, actually made by C. M. Sternberg, was an amazing and promising start. A few days later Levi Sternberg arrived with the wagon and equipment, and in July George joined the field party. Contacts between the Sternberg and Brown field parties were friendly, but Brown soon moved his camp downstream to the Little Sandhill Creek area. Sternberg would have Hked to follow but already he had enough finds near Steveville to keep his party busy for the summer. In addition to the flesh-eater's skeleton, the discoveries of the year included two fine skulls of duck-billed dinosaurs (one of them the type of Gryposaurus notabilis), the skull of a fantastic new horned dinosaur with a frill of spikes (Styraco- saurus albertensis), a skeleton of a horned dinosaur with skin impressions (Chasmosaurus belli), the skull of another new horned dinosaur (Centro- saurus apertus), and the sheU of a new species of turtle (Boremys pulchra). Lambe visited the field camp in September and was greatly impressed with the wealth of material that had been found. At the beginning of the field season of 1914, Sternberg and his son Charles accompanied a Survey geologist. Dr. D. B. Dowling, to the Judith River badlands of Montana, which he had explored with Cope 38 years before. Oil had been discovered in Alberta, and the pioneer geological work of Dawson was being revised by Dowling and his associates, hence the visit to the classical Cretaceous section along the Missouri. Sternberg enjoyed seeing the changes that had occurred in the region since his previous Lawrence Lambe and C. H. Sternberg collecting a fossil, turtle, Old man formation, Red Deer River, 1912. National Museum of Canada, No. 25436. C. H. Sternberg and skull of a horned dinosaur (Chasmosaurus belli), Oldman formation. Red Deer River, 1913. N.M.C., No. 2542L
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