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DINOSAURS OF
THE SPATSIZI PLATEAU The Search Continues Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park
In the summer of 2013, Royal BC Museum curator of botany Dr. Ken Marr spotted something interesting during his alpine fieldwork in Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park—a small, shiny tooth from a tyrannosaurid dinosaur, maybe even Tyrannosaurus rex.
By Dr. Victoria Arbour Curator of Palaeontology
1. The 2019 expedition to the Spatsizi Plateau found an exciting site with dinosaur fossils, but a surprise August snowfall ended the field season early. Photograph courtesy of Thomas Cullen. 2. A serrated tooth from a tyrannosaurid dinosaur— perhaps even a Tyrannosaurus—found by curator of botany Dr. Ken Marr in Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park in 2013.
2. Learn more about the dinosaurs of the Spatsizi Plateau on our Research Portal at rbcm.ca/research-portal
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