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- noun geology Any
stratum containingbones
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Alberta scientists discover largest bed of dinosaur bones - The Globe and Mail: "Scientists in Alberta have discovered the largest dinosaur bonebed ever documented – along with evidence of massive carnage – near Hilda, 50 km north of Medicine Hat."
Archive 2010-06-20 Bill Crider 2010
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From what I understand there is going to be a paper on the first Triceratops bonebed in Journal of Vert Paleo sometime in the future.
Neoceratopsian publications for 2008 ReBecca Foster 2009
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The first Triceratops bonebed and its implications for gregarious behavior Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29 1, 286-290
Archive 2009-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2009
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Dinochick Blogs: The first Triceratops bonebed ...
The first Triceratops bonebed ... ReBecca Foster 2009
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Over 800+ cataloged specimens from seven species of dinosaur, including the type specimen of the first Jurassic ankylosaur Mymoorapelta, have been recovered from this bonebed.
Archive 2009-05-01 ReBecca Foster 2009
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I would love to see that paper on the triceratops bonebed.
Neoceratopsian publications for 2008 ReBecca Foster 2009
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The particular site I had in mind was in northern Alberta at a place called Pipestone Creek, where a massive bonebed containing the remains of hundreds of Pachyrhinosaurs were discovered in 1972 and worked until quite recently.
Life's Time Capsule: Making a Prehistoric Flood Traumador 2009
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A poster at SVP discussing the second known Triceratops bonebed, preserving a minimum of three individuals.
Neoceratopsian publications for 2008 ReBecca Foster 2009
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These animals had all clearly been killed by a flood, and as it was pretty much just them in the bonebed they probably were all alive together before being killed aka a herd.
Life's Time Capsule: Making a Prehistoric Flood Traumador 2009
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A poster at SVP discussing the second known Triceratops bonebed, preserving a minimum of three individuals.
Archive 2009-01-01 ReBecca Foster 2009
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