A review of dinosaurian body fossils from British Columbia, Canada
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- Subject Areas
- Paleontology, Taxonomy
- Keywords
- British Columbia, Dinosaur, Hadrosauridae, Ankylosauria, Pachycephalosauridae, Tyrannosauridae, Dromaeosauridae
- Copyright
- © 2016 Reid
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- 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
- 2016. A review of dinosaurian body fossils from British Columbia, Canada. PeerJ Preprints 4:e1369v3 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1369v3
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 dinosaur groups are represented: ankylosaurians, hadrosaurids, pachycephalosaurids, ornithomimosaurians, dromaeosaurids and tyrannosaurids.
Author Comment
This is the third version, which has an included phylogenetic analysis specific to Pachycephalosauria, and is the most comprehensive published in both characters and taxa. In addition, a review of putative dinosaurs is included, and more specimens and original images are here.
Supplemental Information
Figure 1. Map of British Columbia showing locations of non-avian dinosaur body fossils
A - Tumbler Ridge; B - Sustut Basin; C - Denman Island. Inset showing location of British Columbia within Canada.
Figure 2. Reconstructed skeleton of PRPRC Hadrosauridae indet., showing known material
Edmontosaurus regalis silhouette by Pete Buchholz from Phylopic, CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. Scale bar = 1 meter.
Figure 3. Reconstructed skeleton of RBCM.EH.2006.019 Pachycephalosaurini nov. tax., showing known material
Homalocephale calathocercas silhouette by “FunkMonk” from Phylopic, CC-BY 3.0 license. Scale bar = 0.5 meters.
Figure 4. Phylogenetic analysis of Pachycephalosauridae
A - Majority Rules 50% consensus; B - Strict Consensus tree. Clades labelled based on new definitions proposed here (Table 1).
Table 1. List of clades and definitions used in this work
For reasons for novel definitions, as well as clade synonyms, see supplementary information.
Supplementary information: Raw data
Includes phylogenetic characters and matrix, recoded characters, and phylogenetic discussion.