Emily Bamforth
@EL_Bamforth
Canadian palaeontologist interested in fossil plants, extinction and dinosaurs! Museum Curator at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum.
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10-09-2014 22:36:26
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#FossilFriday ! The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum #Paleo Crew was super excited to start opening the Pipestone Creek #Pachyrhinosaurus #Bonebed for the season this week. Hopefully we'll find some cool stuff this summer!! #livefromthefield #dinosaurs County of Grande Prairie
Jumping on the #Auroraborealis bandwagon ;-) Had a spectacular show up here in our neck of the woods yesterday. Nature is amazing! County of Grande Prairie #NorthernAlberta Town of Beaverlodge
#MistakenPoint , #Newfoundland (Mistaken Point) was where I did my MSc research Queen's University . (I named three fossil species from there). Super cool that it's part of this new gallery Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology!
#Livefromthefield ! The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum #PaleoTeam was super excited to get out for the first #field day of the season in #northernAlberta . Found some #dinosaur bone and some pretty exciting little #tracefossils ! Good omens for the season, hopefully! #field work Jackson Sweder
#FossilFriday ! This week, we have an exciting fossil found in 2023. This is a Thescelosaurus femur (upper leg bone). This type of dinosaur is one of the rarer groups from the Grande Prairie region, so this bone helps us fill the gap of what other dinosaurs lived in the region.
I am ceaselessly amazed by #PlanetEarth . Life here is about intricate interactions and knife-edge precision, from the molecular level to the scale of ecosystems. Life has been doing this for billions of years. Want to witness a #miracle ? Just look out your window. #EarthDay2024 .
#FossilFriday ! This broad “U” shaped bone is a juvenile hadrosaur predentary (lower beak). This bone allowed the hadrosaur to graze large swaths of soft plants better than almost any other animal, using its rows of overlapping teeth to efficiently chew up plant material.
#FossilFriday These two fossils are a Pachyrhinosaurus maxilla and dentary, which are the upper and lower jaws. The grooved tooth sockets aligned, so as the jaws moved, the teeth sliced against each other like scissors. This ability to chew allowed Pachyrhinosaurs to thrive.
We're super excited for #AprilArchosaurAbsurdity2024 , presented by Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum & Amplomedia. First battle: the #terrorbird Kelenken vs. the bizarre Argentine #dinosaur Jakapil. Read, watch, or listen to it here:
dinomuseum.ca/aaa-2024-battl…
(Good) #FossilFriday ! Because it's #Easter , figured I'd share this photo of #hadrosaur #eggshell fragments from the Late Cretaceous of southwest #Saskatchewan . This site is through to be a #dinosaur nesting ground. Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum
#FossilFriday ! Like most other ceratopsians, Pachyrhinosaurus have very extravagant frills. This parietal bar was found in 2022 and shows how variable the horns at the top of the frill can be. Each frill is unique and shows a different mix of horn length, width, and curvature.
#FossilFriday ! One of my favorite #microvertebrate #fossils are palatal toothplates from the fish Coriops. This type of #fish had teeth on the roofs of their mouths. They're so weird and cool. Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum
#FossilFriday ! The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum's #PaleoPooch , Aster, turns 10 this week. Here's a picture of her in 2023 with a c.f. #Edmontosaurus #leg from a site in the M.D. of Greenview in northern Alberta. #dinosaur #hadrosaur #workingdogs
#FossilFriday ! This foot bone is a metatarsal, the bone between your ankle and toes. Found in 2023, this hadrosaur bone is likely from an Edmontosaurus, as no other dinosaurs from the Grande Prairie area 75 m.y.a. reached this size. Prepared: Cindy Wendorf. Diagram: Scott Harmon.
Tune in Wednesday, March 13th at 6 PM MST for our next Virtual Speaker, Sally Hurst! Her fascinating talk is entitled: “The Found a Fossil Project: Discovering Dinosaurs and Protecting the Past in Australia'.
Watch her talk live here: youtube.com/watch?v=yQmu7B…
#FossilFriday ! These are internal #ironstone molds of #freshwater #bivavles (clams). Common(ish) from the #LateCretaceous , these #fossils are from SW #Saskatchewan . Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum #invertebratepaleontology
Happy #DarwinDay ! Charles Darwin was a Victorian naturalist best known for his publication “On the #OriginofSpecies by Natural Selection” (1859). Insatiably curious, he studied everything from barnacles to pigeons to bees. Today, he is considered the father of #evolutionarytheory
