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> Additions to the Cenozoic Avian Fauna of Saskatchewan
> The "Burlap Bag" Technique for Collecting Microvertebrate Fossils
> Catalogue of Type and Figured Fossils, Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History, Regina
> Concretions and Some Other Sedimentary Structures
> An Eutherian from the Late Cretaceous (Maestrichtian, Kemp Clay formation) of Texas
> Frenchman Formation Terrestrial Ecosystem Conference, Program and Abstracts.
> Geological History of Saskatchewan
> Lagomorphs of the Calf Creek Local Fauna (Cypress Hills Formation, Oliogocene, Chadronian) Saskatchewan
> Leptomerycid artiodactyla of the Calf Creek Local Fauna (Cypress Hills Formation, Oliogocene, Chadronian) Saskatchewan
> Mammals of the Riddell Local Fauna (Floral formation, Pleistocene, Late Rancholabrean) Saskatoon, Canada
> Mammals of the Swift Current Creek Local Fauna (Eocene: Uintan), Saskatchewan
> Mammals of the Topham Local Fauna: Early Miocene (Hemingfordian) Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan
> Pleistocene Pike, Esox lucius (Osteichthyes: Esoicdae) from Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
> Reptiles of Saskatchewan's Ancient Seas
> Rodents of the Calf Creek Local Fauna (Cypress Hills Formation, Oliogocene, Chadronian) Saskatchewan
> Selected Bibliography of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Event, through 1989
> "Thunder Beasts" of Saskatchewan
Additions to the Cenozoic Avian Fauna of Saskatchewan
Occasional Short Notes No. 4
The Cenozoic vertebrate history of western Canada is essentially centred in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Mammals are the best studied group, followed by reptiles and amphibians. Saskatchewan faunas from the Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, and Pleistocene are plentiful. Birds, however, have been limited to the Late Eocene' and Pleistocene. Reported here are additions to the paleoavian fauna from the Eocene and Miocene of Saskatchewan.
Author: T. T. Tokaryk
Date: 1992
Pages: 4
Price: not available for sale
The "Burlap Bag" Technique for Collecting Microvertebrate Fossils
Occasional Short Notes No. 1 
A full description and discussion of the "burlap-bag" technique for collecting small fossils. This technique is a simple and inexpensive method with a considerable reduction in the loss of fossils as compared to other screening methods.
Author: T. T. Tokaryk
Date: 1986
Pages: 3
Price: not available for sale
Catalogue of Type and Figured Fossils, Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History, Regina
Natural History Contributions No. 10
In recent years, research on Saskatchewan fossils, especially fossil vertebrates, has increased manyfold. This catalogue is a list of the type specimens that have been designated and the specimens that have been illustrated in a growing and sometimes obscure literature. It also gives an opportunity to change some designations in light of more recent literature, to correct some catalogue numbers that have been mis-cited, and to give new numbers to specimens that were published before the current catalogue system was established.
Authors: J. E. Storer and T. T. Tokaryk
Date: 1992
Pages: 63
Price: $9.95
Concretions and Some Other Sedimentary Structures
Popular Series No. 3
The most common inorganic sedimentary structures are described and illustrated by means of 45 black-and-white photographs. Special attention is given to various types of concretions, their formation and appearance.
Author: Bruce A. McCorquodale
Date: 1963
Pages: 20
Price: $1.00
An Eutherian from the Late Cretaceous (Maestrichtian, Kemp Clay Formation) of Texas
Occasional Short Notes No. 2
Late Cretaceous mammals from Texas are poorly known. Discovered in the marine deposits of the Kemp Clay Formation (Maestrichtian), a recently recovered eutherian Lp3 adds to the fauna of Texas and illustrates some unusual morphological features.
Author: T. T. Tokaryk
Date: 1987
Pages: 6
Price: not available for sale
Frenchman Formation Terrestrial Ecosystem Conference, Program and Abstracts
Contains short and extended abstracts from the Frenchman Formation Terrestrial Ecosystem Conference held in Eastend, Saskatchewan at the T. Rex Discovery Centre, May 17 - 20, 2009. Mostly on dinosaurs from the Frenchman Formation of Saskatchewan, other subjects include plants, turtles, and birds from the same stratigraphic unit.
Edited by: Tim T. Tokaryk, Eric Snively, with Harold Bryant
Date: 2009
Pages: 74
Price: $14.50
Geological History of Saskatchewan
The Earth Sciences Gallery at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum (formerly the Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History) is designed to help visitors look at our land, fossils, and mineral resources differently than before. Each part of the gallery is a chapter in our geological history, and each part can be a starting point for discovery of the past. In the gallery, and in this book, we look at Saskatchewan's geological evolution as having passed through five major stages, leading to the present day. Not only does our geological history provide a framework for understanding Saskatchewan's life, landscape, and resources, but it also exemplifies the development of much of the Great Plains of North America.
Author: Dr. John E. Storer
Date: 1989
Pages: 90
Price: $13.95
Natural History Contributions No. 4
The lagomorphs Palaeolagus temnodon and Megalagus near M. brachyodon are present in the Calf Creek Local Fauna (Chadronian: Oligocene), Cypress Hills Formation of Saskatchewan. The Calf Creek populations show 'primitive' characteristics in premolars, as compared to previously reported samples. Calf Creek lagomorphs indicate an age for the local fauna that is older than the Pipestone Springs Local Fauna of Montana, and possibly older than the levels at Flagstaff Rim, Wyoming, from which large lagomorph samples have been reported.
Author: John E. Storer
Date: 1981
Pages: 14
Price: $3.95
Natural History Contributions No. 3
Three artiodactyl taxa that occur in the Calf Creek Local Fauna, Hendryomeryx esulcatus (Cope), Leptomeryx speciosus (Lambe), and Leptomeryx mammifer (Cope), are valid species properly assigned to the family Leptomerycidae. Size, height of crown, and details of crown construction separate the taxa from each other and from other named leptomerycid species. Leptomeryx speciosus and Leptomeryx mummifer are also recognized from Pipestone Springs, Montana and Flagstaff Rim, Wyoming.
Author: John E. Storer
Date: 1981
Pages: 32
Price: $4.95
Natural History Contributions No. 2
The Riddell Local Fauna, recovered from fluvial sand, which occurs between tills of the Floral Formation in the Saskatoon area, is composed of nineteen taxa of mammals. It contains the most northern record of Cynomys cf. C. ludovicianus and extends the reported Pleistocene distribution of Equus conversidens farther north and east on the Canadian prairies. The presence of Lagurus curtatus and the evolutionary grade of Ondatra zibethicus confirm a late Rancholabrean age for the Riddell Local Fauna. The habitat preferences of the known extant species present in the Riddell Local Fauna suggest that the climate at the time of deposition was probably much like it is today. The landscape is believed to have been dominated by open grassland with trees and shrubs in low areas.
Author: T. SkwaraWoolf
Date: 1980
Pages: 129
Price: $10.95
Mammals of the Swift Current Creek Local Fauna (Eocene: Uintan), Saskatchewan
Natural History Contributions No. 7
The Swift Current Local Fauna, Cypress Hills Formation of Saskatchewan, is a Uinta C equivalent (later Eocene: late Uintan Land Mammal Age). This fauna inhabited a wide river valley in the Great Plains, probably dominated by closed-canopy woodland formations. Mammalian diversity in both species richness and equitability of representation was high, indicating ecological stability. The preserved sample represents predominantly late spring or early summer mortality. Fossils were transported and deposited in a braided stream at the time of peak seasonal rainfall and stream discharge. Fifty-three mammalian taxa are represented, including new genera Wallia (Insectivora: Proscalopidae) and Ibarus (Artiodactyla: Leptochoeridae), and new species Didelphodus serus, Thylacaelurus campester, Wallia scalopidens, Auxontodon processus, Ibarus ignotus, Microparamys solidus, Pseudocylindrodon citofluminis, 'Namatomys' fugitivus, Protadjidaumo altilophus, Janimus mirus, and Procaprolagus vusillus.
Author: John E. Storer
Date: 1984
Pages: 158
Price: $14.95
Natural History Contributions No. 9
Mammals of the Topham Local Fauna, derived from sediments that cap the Cypress Hills Formation in southwestern Saskatchewan, are Hemingfordian (early Miocene) in age. A minimum of fifty taxa of mammals, predominantly small mammals, are represented. The Topham Local Fauna is only the fifth mammalian fauna of Hemingfordian age from the Great Plains of North America in which small mammals, here predominantly rodents, are well preserved. Among the previously described Hemingfordian fossil assemblages, the Topham Local Fauna is most like the Split Rock Fauna of Wyoming. Four species present in both faunas are unknown from other faunas, and many of the co-occurring taxa appear to have inhabited arid or semi-arid environments.
Author: T. Skwara
Date: 1988
Pages: 169
Price: $14.95
Pleistocene Pike, Esox lucius (Osteichthyes: Esoicdae) from Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
Occasional Short Notes No. 3
A left dental of a northern pike (Esox lucius) adds to the Pleistocene Echo Lake Local Fauna and is the first occurrence in the Quaternary of the western Canadian provinces.
Author: T. T. Tokaryk
Date: 1988
Pages: 5
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Reptiles of Saskatchewan's Ancient Seas
Popular Series No. 1
Approximately 70,000,000 years ago what is now Saskatchewan lay beneath the surface of a shallow sea. This pamphlet discusses the four major groups of marine reptiles: Mosasaur, Plesiosaur, Ichthyosaur and Sea Turtle.
Date: 1962
Pages: 12
Price: $1.00
Rodents of the Calf Creek Local Fauna (Cypress Hills Formation, Oligocene, Chadronian) Saskatchewan
Natural History Contributions No. 1
The Calf Creek Local Fauna (Cypress Hills Formation, Chadronian) contains 17 taxa of rodents, including the new genus and species Cupressimus barbarae (Eomyidae). The rodent assemblage suggests an age late in the early Chadronian, definitely earlier than the middle Chadronian Pipestone Springs Local Fauna. Other evidence indicates that the age can be no earlier than that of the McCarty's Mountain Local Fauna.
Author: John E. Storer
Date: 1978
Pages: 54
Price: not available for sale
Selected Bibliography of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Event, through 1989
Natural History Contributions No. 11
Compiling a bibliography on a current topic like the K-T boundary event is, as one would expect, a never-ending task. Because we will never know for certain the causes and the effects of the extinction 65 million years ago, there will continue to be ideas put in print. This bibliography of the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary event encompasses a literature search through 1989. Every effort was made to obtain relevant articles.
Author: T. T. Tokaryk, J. E. Storer and E. M. V. Nambudiri
Date: 1992
Pages: 140
Price: $10.95
"Thunder Beasts" of Saskatchewan
Fact Sheet No. 1 (RSM Information Series)
Date: February, 2002
Pages: 2
Price: Free Download
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