A review of dinosaurian body fossils from British Columbia, Canada
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Paleontology, Taxonomy
- Keywords
- British Columbia, Dinosaur, Coelurosauria, Thescelosauridae, Iguanodontia, Hadrosauridae, Ankylosauria
- Copyright
- © 2015 Reid
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2015. A review of dinosaurian body fossils from British Columbia, Canada. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1369v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1369v1
Abstract
Since the 1900s, dinosaur fossils have been discovered from Jurassic to Cretaceous age strata, from all across the prairie provinces of Canada and the Western United States, yet little material is known from the outer provinces and territories. In British Columbia, fossils have long been uncovered from the prevalent mid-Cambrian Burgess Shale, but few deposits date from the Mesozoic, and few of these are dinosaurian. The purpose of this paper is to review the history of dinosaurian body fossils in British Columbia. The following dinosaurian groups are represented: coelurosaurians, thescelosaurids, iguanodontians, ankylosaurs and hadrosaurs.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ. It is my first submission to any journal, and may have minor issues that I am not aware of.