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Museum curator and general manager:
PME Curator
E-mail: pme@eos.ubc.ca
Telephone: 604-822-6992
Fax: 604-822-6088 (please mark faxes ATTN: PME Curator)
Our first featured exhibit is our Lambeousaurus skeleton. Vertebrate
fossils are extremely rare in British Columbia. Only a few are known,
and none are part of a complete skeleton. Our neighbouring province of
Alberta, however, is rich in fossils, including dinosaurs. This
specimen was found and excavated in Alberta by Charles H. Sternberg and
his sons. It was prepared at the National Museum of Canada and
presented to UBC in 1950.
Lambeosaurs are a type of duckbilled dinosaurs. Duckbills are also
called hadrosaurs. Hadrosaurs were the most common large herbivores in
many North American Late Cretaceous ecosystems. The Lambeosaurs are
characterized by the fact that their crests are hollow. The purpose of
the crest is still in dispute; evidence exists for theories as wide
ranging as the ideas that it was for sexual display or that it was used
as a resonating chamber to make low-frequency calls.
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