Chalk up another significant dino find for the Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative.
A local resident brought in some fossils to have the local experts take a look. Project Paleontologist Dr. Phil Bell says that's not unusual -- people like to have finds verified all the time.
But he says when the fossils were brought in, he could see they were quite different than what'd been found previously.
"We recognized that these things were a bit out of the usual and sure enough they were. They ended up being four or so vertebrae or pieces of the back bone of a plesiosaur."
A marine animal, the plesiosaur exisited during the Cretaceous -- when a long seaway split the North American continent lengthwaise from the Gluf of Mexico to the arctic.
The fossils, found by Grande Prairie resident Norm Dyck on the Smoky River east of Grande Prairie earlier this summer, have been donated to the PCDI.
photo credit: Dr. Phil Bell, PCDI
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