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Dinosaur fossil unearthed by energy company worker

October 04, 2013 10:06 PM

Edmonton: Paleontologists are at a vigor organization work site in northwestern Alberta recovering the fossilized stays of what is accepted to be a duck-charged dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period.

 

A representative for the Tourmaline Oil Corp. uncovered the fossil close Spirit River without much fanfare while working a bit of substantial hardware, and reached authorities at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Grande Prairie. A group from that point is at the site working with staff from the Royal Tyrrell Museum to exhume and securely uproot the fossil.

 

Andy Neuman, official executive at the Tyrrell, said the fossil will be accumulated to the office Drumheller for study.

 

The two- to three-metre bit of skeleton uncovered seems, by all accounts, to be the tailbone of a hadrosaur, a leaf eater that was likely 10 to 15 metres long.

 

Neuman said groups are diving around it in any desire for finding extra remains.

 

"It would appear that there may be a considerable amount a greater amount of it back in the slope," he said.

 

On Wednesday, Brian Brake, official executive at the Currie gallery, called the example a standout amongst the "most complete finds in quite a while in this part of the planet."

 

Neuman said the bones in the tail are truly delicate and the rock in which it is inserted is extremely hard, making it unreliable to exhume.

 

He said the researchers and organization are working together to uproot it as quickly as would be prudent to forestall it from being harmed. Some individuals have been appearing at the site in any desire for getting a perspective of the fossil however are constantly dismissed.

 

"The organization has overwhelming supplies working so it is not a nature's turf," Neuman said. "We want to stabilize the site and get the dinosaur into a sheltered and secure site.

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