The Amazing Dinosaur Found Accidentally By Miners In Canada

The Amazing Dinosaur Found Accidentally By Miners In Canada The amazing dinosaur found (accidentally) by miners in canada. known as a nodosaur, this 110 million year old, armored plant eater is the best preserved fossil of its kind ever found. Photographed at royal tyrell museum of paleontology drumheller, alberta. the june 2017 issue of national geographic magazine takes a fascinating look at the discovery of a nodosaur fossil, remnants of an armored herbivore that would have weighed 3,000 pounds. canadian miners happened upon the fossil in 2011, paving the way for the excavation of.

The Amazing Dinosaur Found Accidentally By Miners In Canada In 2011, miners in canada found an actual dinosaur and the best preserved fossil of its kind. back in 2011, shawn funk, a heavy equipment operator, was just doing his job, carving his way through the earth at the millennium mine, a vast pit some 17 miles north of fort mcmurray, alberta. A group of miners accidentally stumbled upon what is possibly the most intact dinosaur carcass science has ever seen. borealopelta (meaning “northern shield”) is a genus of nodosaurid ankylosaur from the early cretaceous of alberta, canada. it contains a single species, b. markmitchelli, named in 2017 by caleb brown and colleagues from a. The amazing dinosaur found (accidentally) by miners in canada. this armored plant eater lumbered through what is now western canada about 110 million years ago until a flooded river swept it into the open sea. the dinosaur’s undersea burial preserved its armor in exquisite detail. its skull still bears tile like plates and a gray patina of. That monday had started like any other at the millennium mine, a vast pit some 17 miles north of fort mcmurray, alberta, operated by energy company suncor. hour after hour funk’s towering excavator gobbled its way down to sands laced with bitumen—the transmogrified remains of marine plants and creatures that lived and died more than 110.

The Amazing Dinosaur Found Accidentally By Miners In Canada The amazing dinosaur found (accidentally) by miners in canada. this armored plant eater lumbered through what is now western canada about 110 million years ago until a flooded river swept it into the open sea. the dinosaur’s undersea burial preserved its armor in exquisite detail. its skull still bears tile like plates and a gray patina of. That monday had started like any other at the millennium mine, a vast pit some 17 miles north of fort mcmurray, alberta, operated by energy company suncor. hour after hour funk’s towering excavator gobbled its way down to sands laced with bitumen—the transmogrified remains of marine plants and creatures that lived and died more than 110. This is the best dinosaur fossil of its kind ever found (magazine) the 110 million year old fossil of a nodosaur preserves the animal’s armor, skin, and what may have been its final meal. on the afternoon of march 21, 2011, a heavy equipment operator named shawn funk was carving his way through the earth, unaware that he would soon meet a dragon. Borealopelta markmitchelli is a genus of nodosaurid ankylosaur from the lower cretaceous of alberta, canada. discovered at the millennium mine, an oil sands mine 19 miles north of fort mcmurray, alberta, it was originally uncovered on 21st march 2011 when an excavator struck the fossil as sediments were being removed to allow mining of the underlying bitumen rich sands of the mcmurray formation.