{"id":9054,"date":"2020-05-05T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=9054"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:47","slug":"a-new-understanding-of-prehistoric-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2020\/a-new-understanding-of-prehistoric-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Understanding of Prehistoric Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        A New Understanding of Prehistoric Canada\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">Dinosaur collecting in western Canada, between 1874-1889, formed the foundation of Canadian palaeontology as we know it. The fossils that were found, and their scientific significance, were poorly understood until now. By documenting the historical collection of these fossils and identifying them taxonomically, Brigid Christison and her colleagues uncovered numerous first Canadian occurrences which were previously unrecorded, along with some first global occurrences.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about Prehistoric Canada at:<a href=\"https:\/\/earthscienceshistory.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.17704\/1944-6187-39.1.184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/earthscienceshistory.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.17704\/1944-6187-39.1.184<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brigid Christison is a Master&#8217;s student in Biology supervised by <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jeff-dawson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeff Dawson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/danielle-fraser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Danielle Fraser<\/a>. Her contributions to the above article were in contribution with the Palaeobiology department at the Canadian Museum of Nature, working with Dr. Jordan Mallon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinosaur collecting in western Canada, between 1874-1889, formed the foundation of Canadian palaeontology as we know it. The fossils that were found, and their scientific significance, were poorly understood until now. By documenting the historical collection of these fossils and identifying them taxonomically, Brigid Christison and her colleagues uncovered numerous first Canadian occurrences which were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grad-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9060,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions\/9060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}