FREE ADMISSION to the Dinosaur Discovery Gallery from
May 20 - 23, 2011 (during the BCPA 9th Paleontology Symposium).
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Rich McCrea shows Daniel Helm how to make
a replica of a footprint, while
Jill Mason looks on. |
Kevin Sharman of Bullmoose mine presents
TRMF president Carolyn
Golightly with a slab of shale containing a beautifully preserved "cycad" (plant)
fossil. |
A watercolour of "Delores the Ankylosaurus" created
for the TRMF by the
Vancouver artist known as Chelle. |
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Rich McCrea and onlookers view footprints by lantern light, which
makes
intricate details more visible to the human eye. |
TRMF member Larry White trains in the lab of the Royal Tyrrell
Museum of
Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta. |
TRMF President (and Continuing Education
Coordinator for Northern Lights
College) Carolyn Golightly welcomes Marisa Gilbert, palaeontology
student
from the U of A, as the 2003 Dino Camp coordinator in Tumbler Ridge. |
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| A theropod print in perspective. |
The first official Museum exhibit, displayed in the Tumbler Ridge
Community centre, was one of fossil fish from Wapiti Lake. |
The bone bed containing skeletal material of BC's first
dinosaur. |
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| A fossilized pine cone in perspective. |
Palaeontologist and dig team leader Rich McCrea interprets the
bone bed for visitors from regional tourism organizations who were
in town to attend the Museum's exbibit opening on July 3, 2003. |
A birds-eye view of the dig site. |
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The location and conditions required many many hours of
labour and posed challenges for the dig team. |
TRMF Vice President Charles Helm and excavation team leader Rich
McCrea on location at the site of the bone bed in Tumbler Ridge,
BC. |
Rich McCrea, 2003/04 TRMF President Carolyn Golightly
and Dr. Phil Currie - Curator of Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell
Museum - pose in front
of the recently opened Museum
exhibit, recently opened
on 3 July 2003.
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The "who's who" of palaeontolgists
pay a surprise visit on the
first day of Dino Camp at Northern Lights College in Tumbler
Ridge. Left to
right: Dr. Charles Helm, Darren Tanke of the Royal Tyrrell Museum,
Lisa
Buckley, Dave Eberth (RTM) Dr. Phil Currie (Curator of Dinosaurs
at the RTM,
Rich McCrea and Marisa Gilbert, camp coordinator in 2003.
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Ten children taking part in the first Dino Camp program -
co-sponsored by Northern Lights College and the Tumbler Ridge Museum
Foundation - had the good fortune to meet and speak with world-famous
palaeontologists on their very first day. |
Dr. Charles Helm shows off the Museum Foundation's
new exhibits to visiting experts from the Royal Tyrrell Museum. |
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Wayne Sherburne of the Tumbler Ridge Saddle Club
presents $500
in Poker Ride proceeds to Carolyn Golightly, in support of the
Museum
Foundation's efforts. |
The Fossil Road Show allows the public to bring
their fossil specimens and have them identified by palaeontologists. |
A theropod footprint was illegally removed from
one of the TRMF field sites. Fortunately it was recovered by the
RCMP and is now in the TRMF collections. Here Constable Chuck Lair
(also a TRMF director) returns it to TRMF Vice President Charles
Helm. |
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| Tumbler Ridge Mayor Clay Iles and the Honourable
Iona Campagnolo, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, cut the
ribbon to open the Monkman Exhibit in 2004. |
In 2004 interesting dinosaur teeth were discovered,
another first in the province of BC. This is a well preserved Saurornitholestes
specimen, from a medium sized theropod. |
The Honourable Iona Campagnolo is shown around the
Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre by Lisa Buckley. |
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| A 2004 highlight was the discovery of BC's
first tyrannosaurid tooth. |
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