Lecture 5 - who discovered the first Dino?

Question 1

Who described the first dino fossil

Answer 1

Reverend Dr Robert Plot in england 1677

Question 2

Age of Enlightenment

Answer 2

Major scientific conclusions are drawn
Earth changes over time
Earth is really old
Stratigraphic principles of relative dating
Fossils are the remains of ancient creatures
Organisms change over time

Question 3

First dinosaurs were disvocered by

Answer 3

westerners

Question 4

Mary Ann Mantell

Answer 4

Discovered what looked like iguana teeth but are way bigger

Question 5

William Buckland

Answer 5

finds first lower jaw of what he belives is a rather large lizard
Megalosaurus

Question 6

Gideon Mantell

Answer 6

Mary ann’s husband buys bones from a fossil dealer. Turns out to be the most complete non-avian dino found yet - a partially articulated Hylaeosaurus

Question 7

Sir Richard Owen

Answer 7

Coins the term dinosaur

Question 8

Deinos sauros

Answer 8

“fearfully great” “lizard”

Question 9

What are the 3 first identified dinos?

Answer 9

Iguanadon
Megalosaurus
Mylaeosaurus

Question 10

When did victorians start to imortalize their conception of dinos in drawings and scultptures

Answer 10

1852

Question 11

Joseph Leidy

Answer 11

finds first significant dinosaur remians in NA hadrosaurus foulkii
1858

Question 12

When were the bone wars

Answer 12

1877-1892

Question 13

Who had a rivarly

Answer 13

Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Marsh

Question 14

Golden age of palaeontology

Answer 14

Marsh and Cope ran competing camps in Colorado, wyoming, and nebraska. More than 142 species were discovered

Question 15

When was the first written report of dino bones in Alberta

Answer 15

1871

Question 16

George Dawson

Answer 16

1974 Duck billed dinosaur fragments along milk river

Question 17

When was the discovery of skull of first meat eating dino in canada

Answer 17

1884

Question 18

Joseph B. Tyrell

Answer 18

Discovery of skull of first meat eating dino in Canada in 1884

Question 19

By the end of the Great Canadian Dino rush >300 signidicant specimens are collected and shipped to museaums but

Answer 19

very few stayed in AB

Question 20

The calm years

Answer 20

after the great depression and world ward 2 funding decreases and large expeditions are done, Interest in dinos declines and reserach slows

Question 21

When is the dino renaissance

Answer 21

1970-Today

Question 22

Melanosomes

Answer 22

pigment producing cells

Question 23

Melanosomes

Answer 23

pigment producing cells

Question 24

Which dino reconstrcutuon was the closest to reality?

Answer 24

The Hylaeosaurus
Best guess for locomotion

Question 25

1972 Alberta Historical Resources Act

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Fossils are property if all Albertans
Fossils are to remain in ALberta
Excavation of fossils can only be done by qualified people holding a permit
Violations punishable by up to 50,000 in fines or 1 year in prison

Question 26

Dino provincial park becomes a provincial park in ___ and a UNESCO world heritage site in

Answer 26

1955 and 1979

Question 27

When did the Royal tyrell museum open

Answer 27

1985

Question 28

What are the two types of fossil collection?

Answer 28

Surface collection
Excavation

Question 29

What type of fossil collection almsot always requires a permit?

Answer 29

dislodging

Question 30

What fossils can be legally collected altered and sold

Answer 30

Ammonites
Oyster shells
Leaf impressions
Petrified wood

Question 31

5 steps of fossil collection for a paleontologist

Answer 31

Remove overburden
Detail digging
Field Jacket
Transport to lab
Display collections