Lecture 5

Question 1

What early discovery inspired griffin lore?

Answer 1

206BC to 220 AD found the silk road, a theory suggests that the griffin lore may have been based on seeing the protoceratops in the Gobi desert

Question 2

The first dinosaur fossil is described by who and when?

Answer 2

Reverend Dr. Robert Plot in england in 1677

Question 3

During the age of enlightenment what major conclusions (5) were drawn?

Answer 3

earth changes over time, earth is really old, stratigraphic principles of relative dating, fossils are the remains of ancient creatures, organisms change over time

Question 4

What did Dr. Plot think the first dinosaur bone was?

Answer 4

Though it was a giant roman war elephant, but then changed it and though it was a biblical flood giantm named it scrotumunanum cause it kinda looked like it

Question 5

What was the first dinosaur discovery by westeners in the 1800s?

Answer 5

mary ann matell discovers what look like very big iguana teeth and was eventually named by igunaodon

Question 6

Who discovered the meglasaurus?

Answer 6

William buckland find lower jaw of what he believes a large lizard in 1824

Question 7

Who first discovered the first non avian dinosaur found?

Answer 7

Gideon mantell, bought bones from a fossil dealer and discovered a partially articulated hylaeosaurus

Question 8

What couple discovered a more complete speciment of the iguanodon?

Answer 8

Mary and Gideon mantell, found a bone that they thought was horn but was actually thumb- in 1840

Question 9

Who first coined the term dinosaur?

Answer 9

Sir richard owen in 1842 defines dinosaur as terrible lizard, the name was basedon the few fossil bones of 4 extinct reptiles and saw it’s similarity betwene birds and reptiles.

Question 10

The first identified dinosaur was what?

Answer 10

the inguanadon

Question 11

When did victorians start creating art of diinosaurs? What did they reconstruct and what did they look like?

Answer 11

reconstructed hylaesaurus, iguanadon, and meglasaurus as an large heavy set quadrapedal, in 1852

Question 12

In 1853 what did scultpor benjamin water house do?

Answer 12

created a life sized sculpture of the iguandon and hosted a dinner in the sculpture

Question 13

Who described the first significant dinosaur remains in north america? What did he describe them as?

Answer 13

Joseph leidy, described dinos as beasts that are bipedal and the hadrosaurus was reconstructed with further info

Question 14

What and when were the bone wars?

Answer 14

Scientists Cope and Marsh had a rivalry to discover a lot more dinos but weren’t talking to eachother so same dinos got diff names in 1877-1892

Question 15

What happened in 1871 in alberta?

Answer 15

The first written report of dinosaur bones in laberta occured

Question 16

What happened in 1874 in alberta?

Answer 16

george dawson found duckbilled dino fragments along the milk river

Question 17

What happened in alberta in 1884?

Answer 17

find the skull of the first meat eating dino in canada by joseph tyrell which gets named as the albertasaurus after alberta gets named as a province

Question 18

What was the era of imperialistic paleontology? What happened?

Answer 18

during 1907-1920, tje germans go to to tanzania and egypt and take material
the american museum of natural historys central asiatix epidition to mogolia was here in the 1920s lead by chapman andrew

Question 19

When was the great dinosaur rush and what happened?

Answer 19

was during the 1910s to 1917s, the stenberg family and barnum brown discovered a bunch of stuff

Question 20

BY the end of the great dinosaur rush how many significnt specimens had been collected and shipped to museums around the world?

Answer 20

over 300 specimens, not much was left in alberta

Question 21

When were the calm years? What happened?

Answer 21

during 1930-1970, after great depression and world war two funding decreases ending large expeditions and dinos fall off

Question 22

When was the dinosaur renaissance? What happened?

Answer 22

1970 to today, interest saprked in dinos again, ask questions abt their speed, cold versus warm blooded, family structures, how they tlaked, how they were rleated, relationship between dinos and birds, how they went extinct

Question 23

How did iguanodon reconstrction chnage over time?

Answer 23

got more data and saw they were not lethargic and their tails don’t drag (as anatomy of pelvis and tail don’t allow it) but are horizontal and dinos ar ein bipedal position

Question 24

How did we see colour in dinos?

Answer 24

through diff shpaed melanosomes that were preserved, diff melanosomes have diff colurs

Question 25

How did the hylaeosaurus change in it’s reconstruction?

Answer 25

find that head sizes relate to brain and see how olfactory senses effect them

Question 26

How did reconstruction of diplodacus chnage?

Answer 26

thought it was sprawled but acc then saw it as swimming because density of water supports their massive bodies,

Question 27

What is the 1972 alberta historical resources act?

Answer 27

fossils are property of all albertans, fossils are to remain in laerta, excavation can only be done by pemrit holders, if not youc na get fined upto 50 000 per speciment or 1 year in prison

Question 28

When was dino provincial park becoma a park/worl heritiage site?

Answer 28

becomea provincial aprk in 1995, and unesco world heritage site in 1979

Question 29

When did the royal tyrell museum open?

Answer 29

in 1985

Question 30

How did stegosaurus be reoncstructed wrong? or the t-rex?

Answer 30

had tail spiked on it’s tail and back plates on it’s tail had low lying tail, trex had backwards mishaped arms, bad head, and kangaroo tail

Question 31

What do you do if you find a fossil but you’re not a paleontologust?

Answer 31

call a paleontologist, don’t touch or anything

Question 32

What are the two types of fossil collection? Describe them?

Answer 32

surface collection (legal on crown/private land with land owner permission)
Illegal in protected areas, provincial and federal aprks

excavaion- digging up fossil, always need a permit.

Question 33

What fossils can legally be excavated?

Answer 33

ammonites, oyster shells, leaf impressions, petrified wood

Question 34

What are the 5 steps of excavating a s a paleontologist?

Answer 34

remover overburden, detail digging, field jacket it, transport to lab (remove matrix, glue back pieves, do research), kept displayed an d collected

Question 35

What percent of specimens are kept in research condtions?

Answer 35

90% plus