BC’s Mountain Dinosaur

BC’s Mountain Dinosaur

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Fossil Hunting

Four people standing in front of a small propeller plane.
Map of Canada with two areas in northern BC enlarged.
Mountain peaks and glaciers as seen from the window of an airplane.
Moose skull with antlers in front of a log cabin surrounded by conifer trees.
Three people standing along a railway overgrown with grasses and trees, beside a river.
Man wearing backpack standing on flat rock covered with moss beside a river, with evergreen trees in background.
Three people sitting on rocks and examining papers and maps.
Two people in the bow of a motorboat on a choppy river.
Various tools including a paintbrush, chisel and screwdrivers alongside a large rock and some rock fragments.
A photograph of a piece of rock in someone’s outstretched fingers. The rock has shiny impressions of delicate leaves.

Meet Buster, BC’s Mountain Dinosaur

A colour illustration of one large striped and spotted dinosaur with a parrot-like beak, and three similarly coloured but fluffy and tiny dinosaurs at its feet. Palm-like plants are in the background.
A line drawing with a simple black shape and outline of a dinosaur with a small horn atop its head, short legs and a long tail. Portions of some shoulder, foot, toe, and leg bones are highlighted in white and grey.
Two pages of a research notebook. The page on the left side has an organized list of roman numerals, letters and numbers written in pencil. The page on the right side has measurements and sketches of bones.
A woman smiles while holding a fossil claw under a bright lamp. On the table in front of her is a box with more fossilized bones.
A hand holding an elongated, claw-shaped stone, while another hand holds calipers up to the claw. Another fossil bone is in the background.
This is an image of a fossilized dinosaur toe. It is made up of three rock pieces, some with long cracks in them, that fit together and form a arch ending in a point.
Woman taking a photograph of a dinosaur bone that is resting on a desk. A laptop computer in the foreground shows a digital image on the screen of the dinosaur bone and other graphics.
An elongated, bat-shaped fossilized bone that is intact but with some chips, cracks, grooves, and other markings.
Two rounded and grooved bones that fit together snugly along one edge. One of the pieces has white paint along its face with "RBCMP900" written in black.

Buster’s Home: British Columbia Then and Now

Aerial view of a river with reflections of clouds in its water. The banks are rocky alongside unbroken forest with mountains in the distance.
Small brown and white grouse-like bird with red eye lid.
Curator of palaeontology Dr. Victoria Arbour looking at and holding a small round rock.
A rock with pock mocked texture that looks similar to that found on a golf ball.
A rock with an impression of leaf veins in it, next to a fallen leaf that has a similar shape and pattern. There is a 10 cm ruler next to the fossil.
Close up image of a rock with fossilized indentations of a fern-like plant.

3D Gallery

Ferrisaurus ulna

A 3D model of one of the lower arm bones (the ulna) of Ferrisaurus sustutensis

Ferrisaurus tibia and fibula

A 3D model of the shin bones (tibia and fibula) of Ferrisaurus sustutensis

Ferrisaurus scapula

A 3D model of one of the shoulder bones (a fragment of the scapula) of Ferrisaurus sustutensis

Ferrisaurus radius

A 3D model of one of the lower arm bones (the radius) of Ferrisaurus sustutensis

Ferrisaurus toe bone

Ferrisaurus toe bone – A 3D model of one of the toe bones (pedal phalanx) of Ferrisaurus sustutensis

Ferrisaurus digit III

A 3D model of one of the toes (digit III) of Ferrisaurus sustutensis

Ferrisaurus coracoid

A 3D model of one of the shoulder bones (a fragment of the coracoid) of Ferrisaurus sustutensis

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