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A) The uppermost member of the Belly River Group B) The lowermost member of the Oldman Formation C) A low-rank coal mine in southern Saskatchewan D) A marine shale above the Bearpaw Formation
A) Judith River Group B) Bearpaw Group C) Western Interior Seaway D) Oldman Group
A) Turonian B) Campanian C) Maastrichtian D) Albian
A) Between 90.5 and 88.0 million years ago B) Between 85.0 and 80.2 million years ago C) Between 76.5 and 74.4 million years ago D) Between 70.1 and 65.5 million years ago
A) Deep marine and abyssal environments B) Volcanic caldera environments C) Alluvial and coastal plain environments D) Glacial and periglacial environments
A) Bearpaw Formation B) Oldman Formation C) Lethbridge Coal Zone D) Judith River Formation
A) Belly River Formation B) Oldman Formation C) Bearpaw Formation D) Milk River Formation
A) Ammonite shells B) Mammalian teeth only C) Pterosaur wings exclusively D) Dinosaur skeletons
A) Volcanic glass shards B) Preserved remains of soft tissues C) Meteorite fragments D) Pure amber deposits
A) Birds and bats B) Amphibians and trilobites C) Whales and dolphins D) Fish, turtles, and crocodilians
A) Red Deer River Park B) Berry Creek C) Deadlodge Canyon D) Dinosaur Provincial Park
A) International Geological Monument B) Protected Biosphere Reserve C) National Marine Sanctuary D) UNESCO World Heritage Site
A) Along the shores of the Milk River B) In the badlands that flank the Red Deer River C) Beneath the Bearpaw Sea D) In the mountains to the west
A) Joseph Burr Tyrrell B) Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux C) Lawrence Lambe D) George Mercer Dawson
A) A duck-billed dinosaur B) A giant prehistoric bear C) A woolly mammoth D) The "grandfather of the buffalo"
A) Thomas Chesmer Weston B) George Mercer Dawson C) Henry Fairfield Osborn D) Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux
A) Deadlodge Canyon B) Berry Creek C) Red Deer River D) Milk River
A) Edward Drinker Cope B) Lawrence Lambe C) George Mercer Dawson D) Joseph Burr Tyrrell
A) Albertosaurus B) Tyrannosaurus C) Gorgosaurus D) Laelaps
A) Henry Fairfield Osborn B) Thomas Chesmer Weston C) Joseph Burr Tyrrell D) Lawrence Lambe
A) George Mercer Dawson B) Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux C) Henry Fairfield Osborn D) Thomas Chesmer Weston
A) Red Deer River B) South Saskatchewan River C) Milk River D) Bow River
A) Thomas Chesmer Weston B) Lawrence Lambe C) Edward Drinker Cope D) Joseph Burr Tyrrell
A) Judith River Formation B) Bearpaw Formation C) Belly River Formation D) Oldman Formation
A) Early Triassic B) Late Permian C) Early Jurassic D) Mid-Cretaceous
A) Erosion of the Canadian Shield to the east B) Erosion of the mountains to the west C) Glacial deposits from the north D) Volcanic ash from northern plains
A) Strictly southward B) Westward and southwestward C) Eastward and southeastward D) Northward and northwestward
A) Hudson Sea B) Sundance Sea C) Tethys Sea D) Bearpaw Sea
A) Western Interior Seaway B) Panthalassa Seaway C) Atlantic Seaway D) Boreal Seaway
A) Marine shales of the Bearpaw Formation B) Coal beds of the Lethbridge Zone C) Sandstones of the Oldman Formation D) Limestone reefs of the Milk River Formation
A) About 150 metres (490 ft) B) About 70 metres (230 ft) C) About 300 metres (980 ft) D) About 30 metres (100 ft)
A) Deep marine shelf environments B) Fluvial channel environments C) Aeolian dune environments D) Glacial moraine environments
A) Pure white chalk and limestone B) Fine- to medium-grained, crossbedded sandstones C) Low-rank coal seams and siltstones D) Massive to laminated organic-rich mudstones
A) Offshore marine environments B) Estuarine and deltaic environments C) Overbank and floodplain environments D) Subglacial trench environments
A) Red chalk and marl B) Coarse-grained conglomerate sandstones C) Massive to laminated, organic-rich mudstones D) Thick beds of massive granite
A) Volcanic pumice and quartz veins B) Root traces and thin beds of bentonite C) Coprolites and sulfur nodules D) Fossilized marine shells and amber
A) Lethbridge Coal Zone B) Berry Creek Coal Member C) Deadlodge Coal Horizon D) Red Deer Coal Seam
A) Lignite beds alternating with marine shales B) Pure anthracite coal layers with thick sandstone caps C) Bituminous coal mixed exclusively with limestone D) Several seams of low-rank coal interbedded with mudstones and siltstones
A) A thick bed of marine limestone B) A regional disconformity C) A massive layer of pure volcanic ash D) An angular unconformity caused by major mountain building
A) By the complete absence of rocks in the Oldman Formation B) By petrographic and sedimentologic differences C) By differences in their overall geological age of 20 million years D) By their fossilized marine invertebrate content
A) They are rare in the Oldman Formation but abundant in the Dinosaur Park Formation B) They have never been found in either formation C) They are abundant in the Oldman Formation and absent in the Dinosaur Park Formation D) They are equally abundant in both formations
A) Manitoba B) Alberta C) Saskatchewan D) British Columbia
A) George Mercer Dawson and his colleagues B) Edward Drinker Cope and Henry Fairfield Osborn C) Thomas Chesmer Weston and Lawrence Lambe exclusively D) Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux and the Blackfoot Confederacy
A) Three B) Two C) One D) Four
A) A return to the lower fauna B) The extinction of all dinosaurs C) Volcanic activity D) A third distinct fauna
A) Centrosaurus B) Corythosaurus C) Vagaceratops irvinensis D) Euoplocephalus tutus
A) Lambeosaurus ornatissimus B) Lambeosaurus magnicristatus C) Lambeosaurus lambei D) Lambeosaurus altidens
A) Coombs B) Mallon C) Eberth D) Penalski
A) Mallon B) Penalski C) Eberth D) Coombs
A) 2019 B) 2018 C) 2023 D) 2010
A) ~16-30m B) ~40m C) ~3-8m D) ~0m
A) ~0m B) ~40m C) ~3-8m D) ~27-31m
A) ~40m B) ~3-8m C) ~16-30m D) ~0m
A) ~16-30m B) ~27-31m C) ~0m D) ~3-8m
A) ~0m B) ~3-8m C) ~40m D) ~27-31m
A) Styracosaurus albertensis B) Corythosaurus casuarius C) Centrosaurus apertus D) Euoplocephalus tutus
A) Pterosaur B) Sauropod C) Theropod D) Corythosaurus
A) Microscopic plankton B) Omnivores C) Carnivores D) Megaherbivores
A) A fully named Triceratops horridus B) An adult Chasmosaurus belli C) An unnamed Pachyrhinosaurus-like taxon D) A well-defined Centrosaurus apertus
A) At least one indeterminate thescelosaurid specimen B) Only adult Iguanodon bones C) Dozens of complete Thescelosaurus skeletons D) No ornithopod remains at all
A) Exclusively lambeosaurines B) Less common hadrosaurs like Brachylophosaurus or Parasaurolophus C) Only juvenile hadrosaurs D) The most abundant adult Edmontosaurus
A) Sub-centimeter fragments B) Exactly five inches across C) Microscopic dust particles D) Giant meters-wide pieces
A) Writing-on-Stone B) Devil's Coulee C) Royal Tyrrell Museum grounds D) Cypress Hills
A) Pisidiid clams B) Brachiopods C) Giant ammonites D) Trilobites
A) Hydrochloric acid B) Basic calcium carbonate C) Sodium chloride D) Iron oxide
A) Sulfuric acid from rainfall B) Artificial industrial acids C) Citric acid from native fruits D) Naturally occurring acids
A) Bonebed 12 B) Bonebed 50 C) Bonebed 1 D) Bonebed 99
A) Yes B) In every single bonebed C) No D) Always
A) Bite punctures from insects B) Tooth marks C) Claw marks D) Pathological bone growths
A) Ceratopsian B) Avimimid C) Tyrannosaurid D) Hadrosaurid
A) Skulls B) Tail feathers C) Teeth D) Footprints
A) Terrestrial B) Arboreal C) Aquatic D) fossorial
A) Turtles B) Snakes C) Frogs D) Lizards
A) Crocodylians B) Whales C) Sharks D) Large birds
A) Leidyosuchus B) Albertochampsa C) Cretorectolobus olsoni D) Cteniogenys sp. cf. antiquus
A) Albertochampsa B) Cteniogenys C) Ischyrhiza D) Champsosaurus
A) Estesesox B) Parasaniwa C) Belonostomus D) Leidyosuchus
A) Albertochampsa B) Leidyosuchus C) Helodermatids D) Champsosaurus
A) No, it is a fish B) No, it is a mammal C) Yes D) No, it is a turtle
A) Nannosaurs B) Necrosaurids C) Nautiloids D) Newts
A) Stegosaurus B) Saurophaganax C) Socognathus D) Spinosaurus
A) ?Helodermatids B) ?Exostinus C) ?Varanids D) ?Teiids
A) Bull shark B) Carpet shark C) Hammerhead shark D) Mackerel shark
A) Sturgeon B) Sclerorhynchid C) Carpet shark D) Gar
A) Sclerorhynchid B) Hybodont shark C) Carpet shark D) Chimaera
A) Ray B) Sturgeon C) Chimaera D) Gar
A) Salmon B) Guitarfish C) Carpet shark D) Pike
A) Gar B) Chimaera C) Sturgeon D) Ray
A) A shark B) A sturgeon C) A chimaera D) A guitarfish
A) Electric ray B) Rhino Ray C) Carpet shark D) Sawfish
A) Holostean fish B) Teleost fish C) Acipenseriformes D) Chondrichthyans
A) Anchiacipenser acanthaspis B) "Acipenser albertensis" C) Lepisosteus occidentalis D) Arotus hieroglyphus
A) Acipenser albertensis B) Lepisosteus occidentalis C) Arotus hieroglyphus D) Anchiacipenser acanthaspis
A) Enchodus petrosus B) Myledaphus bipartitus C) Arotus hieroglyphus D) Ischyrhiza mira
A) The gar B) The tarpon C) The salmon D) The pike
A) A characin B) A chimaera C) An elopomorph D) A pike
A) A gar B) A sturgeon C) A pike D) A characin
A) A guitarfish B) A salmonid C) An otophysan D) An osteoglossomorph
A) Paratarpon apogerontus B) Cretophareodus alberticus C) Acronichthys sp. D) Estesesox foxi
A) Enchodus gladiolus B) Lepisosteus occidentalis C) Arotus hieroglyphus D) Oldmanesox canadensis |