10 June 2026 EN everythingdinosaur ✎ édité manuellement

Rare Dinosaur Fossil From the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group Described

bone vertebra description Canada Colombia Cretaceous Late Cretaceous fossil Dinosauria Ornithomimosauria

Researchers have described a single dinosaur caudal vertebra (tail bone) from Denman Island (British Columbia, Canada). It has been identified as an ornithomimosaur caudal vertebra. The fossil, thought to represent a bone from the middle part of the tail, is only the second dinosaur fossil identified from the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group. In addition, it

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Scientific reference

V. M. Arbour, T. S. Bullard, and D. C. Evans. 2026. An ornithomimosaur from the Campanian Cedar District Formation (Nanaimo Group) of Denman Island, British Columbia, Canada. FACETS 11(155):1-7

DOI: 10.1139/facets-2023-0079 ↗

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