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Chapters: Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Museo Carmen Funes, Paleontological Society, Palaeontological Association, Pander Society. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:The Royal Tyrrell Museum is a popular Canadian tourist attraction and a leading centre of palaeontological research noted for its collection of more than 120,000 fossils. Located 6 kilometres (4 mi) from Drumheller, Alberta and 135 kilometres (84 mi) from Calgary, the museum is situated in the middle of the fossil-bearing strata of the Late Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation and holds numerous specimens from Dinosaur Provincial Park and the Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Egg Historic Nest Site. The Royal Tyrrell Museum is operated by Alberta's Ministry of Culture and Community Spirit. The museum's mission is to "collect, preserve, research and interpret palaeontological history with special reference to Albertas fossil heritage". The museum is named in honour of Joseph Burr Tyrrell, a geologist who discovered the first dinosaur in the Red Deer River Valley in 1884. The Museum opened September 25, 1985 and was given "Royal" status by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. Bruce Naylor was the Director of the Royal Tyrrell Museum from 1992 until his death in April 2007. Under his direction, an ambitious exhibit renewal program was established with 21,000 square feet (2,000 m) of brand new gallery space completed in 20062007 alone. In its first year of operation, the Museum attracted over 500,000 visitors. The average annual number of visitors is approximately 400,000. More than 4,400 square metres (47,000 sq ft) of the museum's 11,200 square metres (121,000 sq ft) is dedicated to exhibits in a series of chronological galleries celebrating the 3.9 billion ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1177220 ... Read more

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Title: A Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds in the Department of Geology and Paleontology in the British Museum (Natural History). With 6 Plates and 88 Text-FiguresPublisher: London, Printed by order of the Trustees [by W. Clowes and sons, limited]Publication date: 1904Subjects: Mammals, FossilBirds, FossilNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off.Publication date: 1919Subjects: PaleontologyPaleontologyPaleontologyNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more